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■ VACCINATIONS CONSIDERED

Hepatitis A
epidemic far
from over
By Sue NewmaN

sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

Ashburton’s hepatitis A epidemic is far from over and vaccination of all children under
five may be considered by health
authorities.
Three weeks had elapsed since
the last confirmed case but another three cases have been identified, bringing the total number
of people affected by the virus
to 22.
And that’s worrying Canterbury medical officer of health
Alistair Humphrey.
“We’d gone three weeks without a new case and that was good
news, but the incubation period
for this is seven weeks and an
outbreak isn’t considered over
until two incubation periods had
passed,” he said.
Making it through one incubation period without a new case
occurring would be a significant
milestone in controlling the epidemic, he said.
Many of the 22 cases were
young children and Mr Humphrey said children from three
pre-schools had now been vaccinated. Vaccinating all under
fives would cost about $200,000
but if that was what was required to stop the outbreak, Mr
Humphrey said he would ensure
this happened.
“We haven’t reached this point
yet but we have the assurance
from the DHB that they’d fund
this if we needed to do it. This
isn’t the biggest outbreak in
New Zealand but it’s a lot of
cases for Ashburton.”

Across the district there are
about 2000 children aged under
five, he said.
Hepatitis A is most commonly
spread by young children and
the greatest barrier is to ensure
children washed their hands
thoroughly after using the toilet.
A child may not show the
symptoms of Hepatitis A but
could infect others. Adults who
contracted the virus could become very sick and for people
over 50 the potential of dying
was about 2 per cent. Several
people have been hospitalised in
Ashburton during the outbreak
and those affected have ranged
from 14 months to 53.
Mr Humphrey applauded the
food businesses that had had
their staff vaccinated.
“The Ashburton Trust and
Subway have done this and others have been asked to consider
it. Hopefully they’ll get around
to it.
“Any food business, from the
smallest café to the largest business would end up closing down
if they were found to be the
centre of an outbreak. No one
would come near them.”
Ashburton’s original case occurred in a family that had returned from overseas and that
reinforced the importance of
people who travelled they were
vaccinated against hepatitis A
and other viruses, Mr Humphrey said.
“We’re trying to raise awareness of people who are going
overseas to take all the necessary precautions so they don’t
bring problems back with them.”

An elderly Ashburton woman is fighting for her life in Christchurch Hospital while her
male passenger (pictured) is in a stable condition, after the ute they were in collided with
Photo JosePh Johnson 160813-JJ_011
a tree next to State Highway 1 near Ashburton yesterday.

Elderly pair involved in car crash
By myleS Hume

to a halt when the southbound
ute the woman was driving with
a male passenger collided with a
tree.
Senior Sergeant Grant Russell, of Ashburton, said it was
believed a medical incident initiated the crash, which resulted
in the elderly pair being airlifted
to Christchurch Hospital via
the Westpac Rescue Helicopter
about 1pm.
A Canterbury District Health
Board spokesperson yesterday
said the elderly woman was in

the hospital’s intensive care unit
in a critical condition, while the
male, who received moderate injuries, was stable.
An elderly Ashburton woman is
Tyre marks from the crash
fighting for her life after veering
show the ute veered off State
off State Highway 1 and smashHighway 1 and jumped a traffic
ing into a tree near Ashburton
island at the Works Road interyesterday.
section, scraping past the conRed paint grazed along the
crete column.
edge of the concrete AshburThe ute then careered through
ton Business Estate column near
tree branches on the grass verge,
Works Road marked the beginluckily missing at least two large
ning of a car smash that carried
trunks before hitting a smaller
on through 100 metres of roadtree more than 100m from the
side tree branches before coming
intersection.
Two fire appliances, three
police cars and a St John ambulance rushed to the scene about
11.30am, where they found the
occupants still inside the severely damaged ute.
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was called in soon after and
landed on State Highway 1, its
paramedics stabilising the woman before flying the couple to
Christchurch.
Earlier in the day, two people
were also taken to hospital after
two cars collided at the interRed paint can be seen on the concrete Ashburton Busi- section of Telegraph Road and
ness Estate column near Works Road after the ute scraped State Highway 1 about 9.30.
160813-JJ_012
past, carrying on through the tree line.
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■ EARTHQUAKE

Damage in Seddon

Quake ‘nerve-wracking’

Seddon residents forced out of
their homes due to quake damage
supported each other through a
rocky night at a welfare centre.
About 20 people had last night
registered to stay at the centre,
set up at the local school by the
Red Cross and Civil Defence.
Others who had found temporary
accommodation congregated with
friends and family in the school
hall, making the most of the hot
drinks, blankets and warm meals
being handed out. Chef Angela
Andrell, 37, whose Blind River
Loop Rd home was close to the
epicentre of the magnitude 6.6
quake said her home had been
‘turned upside down’ by the
quake.
- APNZ

BY SUSAN SANDYS
Methven’s Toni Wilson, studying at Wellington’s Victoria
University, said yesterday’s 6.6
magnitude earthquake in the
capital felt almost as strong
as the 2010 Canterbury earthquake.
The first-year student was
in a history lecture at the university when the earthquake
struck at 2.31pm.
“There was nothing to hide
under, it was kind of nerve
wracking,” she said.
Students crouched on the
floor of the lecture theatre as it
became evident the earthquake
was getting worse, but the
theatre’s chairs and tables were
automatically folding so they
offered no protection.
She said the first sign of the
earthquake had been an overhead screen at the front of the
theatre swaying.
Then the rolling motion got
stronger and someone shouted
“oh god, it’s happening”.
“We all laughed at that, as
soon as we laughed it just went
for it and didn’t stop going,”
she said.
Students hit the floor and
stayed there for about 10 seconds as the earthquake rolled
on.
It was hard to concentrate in
the lecture after that and some

Lift to be demolished

This house in Seddon was badly damaged by yesterday’s quakes.
students went home.
“I stayed, I would rather be
around lots of people,” Miss
Wilson said.
She said she had remained
on edge throughout the rest
of the afternoon as aftershocks
struck, and she viewed pictures
on Facebook of cracks in buildings and shattered windows at
the uni.
“I’m looking forward to the
holidays next week when I get
to go home,” she said.
The earthquake had been the
second strongest she had experienced after the September

4, 2010, 7.1 magnitude quake
which woke up Methven and
caused extensive damage.
Fellow first-year student Alasdair Tarry at the university
said yesterday’s earthquake felt
“a lot more severe” than the last
large event which had struck
Wellington last month.
“This time it definitely went
on for a lot longer,” he said.
He was studying in his college hall when it struck.
“I got straight under the
desk, I’m a bit of a wimp for
earthquakes.”
“I can see State Highway One

PHOTO NZH

from my window, and it’s just
chaos,” he said, describing vehicles clogging the highway to
exit the city after the 6.6 magnitude event and a 5.7 magnitude shake at 3.52pm.
University buildings would
most likely be closed as they
were checked over the weekend.
This would stop students being able to access computers to
complete assignments.
He had an assignment due on
Monday, but could see “an extension coming on” as it would
be difficult to finish in the circumstances.

Buildings swaying in Wellington
The severe earthquake which
rocked the upper South Island
and lower North Island this
afternoon sent workers in Wellington running into the streets
as the ground shook and buildings swayed from side to side.

GNS has confirmed the
earthquake at 2.31pm was a
magnitude 6.6 and was just
8km deep, 3km shallower than
the magnitude 6.5 quake which
hit the Cook Strait last month.
Yesterday’s quake was cen-

CLARK MCLEOD

tred just off Seddon at the top
of the South Island, causing
significant damage to houses
and infrastructure in the region.
In Wellington, hundreds of
commuters were left stranded,

with the rail network crippled
and 11 commuter trains stuck
between platforms for up to an
hour. The mass exodus from the
city also caused traffic chaos in
the suburbs as drivers tried to
avoid the motorway. - APNZ

Clark continues his family’s long
association with real estate in the Mid
Canterbury region.
Born and Raised in Ashburton, Clark
completed tertiary qualifications at both
Lincoln and Massey Universities with
a major in consultation and property
management. Following a professional
rugby career with the Crusaders offshore
he brings many experiences to the sales
role.
Clark has become a leading agent in
the commercial and residential property
sectors. With his extensive market
knowledge and expertise in the field, he
strives to deliver maximum results for his
clients.

A nine-storey lift shaft attached to
the James Smith’s parking building
is to be demolished urgently, due
to the danger of it toppling after
yesterday’s large quake. Lukes
Lane, between Taranaki Street
and Manners Street, had been
closed to the public following
an inspection of the structure,
Wellington City Council said.
Wellington City Civil Defence
Controller Stavros Michael said
council inspectors and the police
would use ‘dangerous building’
provisions of the Building Act to
require the evacuation of buildings
immediately surrounding the lift
shaft.
- APNZ

Schoolchildren safe
Seddon School acting principal
Nick Raynor said all the school’s
children were safe, uninjured and
accounted for. “We had just started
assembly. We had all the kids in
the hall - we’ve got very few tables
to get underneath but they were
brilliant, they did everything they
were supposed to.” He said they
evacuated the children safely
after the ﬁrst quake. “As soon as
the worst one subsided ... we just
ushered them out calmly and went
to the meeting point.” Mr Raynor
said he was waiting for earthquake
assessors to check over the school.
“There’s certainly some superﬁcial
damage and things have shaken off
everywhere, heat pumps hanging
off the walls.” Ward resident Denis
Burkhart was cowering in the
doorway of his petrol station as
he spoke on the phone, while the
area continued to be rocked by
aftershocks. “There’s a lot more
damage than the last one a little
while ago. It was pretty big. You
can hear it coming, it’s like a train
coming down the tracks.” - APNZ

Clark’s advice was always very well thought out
and considered and proved to be invaluable.
It’s not the first time we’ve enlisted his services
and it won’t be the last. - S & R Donnelly

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Council leadership countdown begins
By Sue NewmaN

Sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

And the nominees are:
Mayoralty (1 vacancy)

Ashburton District Council, urban ward
(seven vacancies)

Wilson, Stuart

Ashburton District Council, western ward – elected unopposed

Nordqvist, Martin

Totty, Alan

Methven Community Board (five vacancies)
McLaughlin, Dan

McMillan, Liz

Lischner, Jim

McNab, Terry

Smith, Vicki

Ashburton Trust (six vacancies)

Sampson, Richard

Paterson, Roger

Robertson, Chris

Lilley, Alister

Urquhart, Alisdair

Neumann, Alan

Thomas, Alden

Moore, Maree

Davidson, Bernard

Sparks, Jac

McLeod, Don

Robertson, nominated by Gary
Fail and Bruce Day, current
board member Alan Neumann,
nominated by Ray McLaren
and Darryl Phillips and Richard (Spike) Sampson, nominated
by Wayne Watson and Graeme
Moore.
The trust now has nine candi-

Cutforth, Ken

McAlpine, Sonia

Reveley, Peter

Favel, Donna

McKay, Angus

Brown, Neil

Gilpin, Hamish

Quinton, Sam

Ellis, Russell

McLeod, Don

Bell, Thelma

Ellis, Russell

Ashburton District Council, eastern ward – elected unopposed

Nelson, Darryl

Beavan, Rod

The focus of interest in this
year’s local body elections will
be firmly on urban Ashburton.
For many voters the elections
will be a non-event with many
able only to vote on one issue,
the mayoralty.
Three candidates are chasing
the district’s top job and this is
the only issue where voters district wide can have their say.
The urban ward of the Ashburton District Council and the
Ashburton Trust are the other
two issues where elections are
required.
Candidates in these, however,
can only be chosen by people
living with in either the urban
ward or within the trust’s geographical boundaries.
Out of the six issues at stake,
just three received more nominations than were needed, guaranteeing an election, while one,
the Methven Community Board,
failed to attract sufficient numbers to fill all board seats.
The two rural wards for the
Ashburton District Council attracted just the bare minimum
number of nominations, with
the five sitting members returned unopposed.
With just hours to go until
nominations closed there was a
late surge of interest with 10
nominations coming in at the
11th hour.
The number of candidates
seeking seats around the Ashburton District Council table,
representing the urban ward
now number 13 (for seven
seats). The latest nominations
are two former district councillors - Rod Beavan, nominated
by Michael Hanrahan and Janice Andrew, and Peter Reveley
nominated by Simon Page and
Margaret Chapman.
An election will now be required for the six Ashburton
Trust seats, with the nomination
of current chair Alister Lilley,
nominated by Alistair Wing and
Graeme Church, solicitor Chris

Watson, Fay

dates. The Methven Community
Board will be running one short
around its board table this year.
Until late yesterday no nominations had been received but
last night current member
Hamish Gilpin was nominated
by Brent McDonald and David
Nesbit and new candidate So-

nia McAlpine was nominated
by Philip Wareing and Maree
Glanville.
With just minutes remaining
until nominations closed a further two candidates came forward for the board.
Current chair Liz McMillan was nominated by Heather

MacKenzie and Janine Holland
and current board member Dan
McLaughlin was nominated
by James Urquhart and Peter
Wood.
Voting papers will be sent out
to registered electors from September 20 and voting closes at
noon on October 12.

Mrs Gillian Simpson, Executive Principal,
warmly invites you to join her for a

Mrs Gillian Simpson, Executive Principal,
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In brief
Cannabis arrests
Two Ashburton males were
arrested on Thursday for
possession of cannabis. They will
appear in Ashburton District Court
at the next sitting date.

Theft in Rakaia
Police are seeking information into
an attempted diesel theft in Rakaia
on Wednesday. They will continue
their inquiries into the incident.

Beneﬁt fraud remand
A Buller woman has admitted
receiving over $63,000 in beneﬁt
payments she was not entitled
to. Anne-Marie Louise Quinn, 45,
of Inangahua Junction, pleaded
guilty in Westport District court
yesterday to two charges of taking,
obtaining, or using a document
for pecuniary advantage. She
received total overpayments of
$63,046.44, which she had made
arrangements to repay.
- WPN

Doctor denies charges
A young woman’s mental health
issues led to her lying about a
sexual relationship with her doctor,
a tribunal was told yesterday.
Closing arguments were heard
in the Health Practitioners
Disciplinary Tribunal hearing
of a doctor accused of having
a sexual relationship with a
patient, and paying her about
$40,000 to encourage her to
mislead authorities about their
relationship. The doctor denies
the charges, but accepts he
breached professional boundaries
by entering into a friendship with
her after their doctor-patient
relationship had ended.
The tribunal reserved its decision.
- APNZ

Celebrating all things Maori
Three Ashburton schools showcased their appreciation for everything Maori through kapahaka, waiata and poi performances in Timaru yesterday. Hampstead (pictured), Netherby and Ashburton Borough schools travelled south to
compete in the annual Flavour Festival, where they put their cultural performances to the test against hundreds of
other youngsters from across Mid-South Canterbury. “It’s also a great chance for children to perform on a big stage
in front of a whole lot of strangers with performances they have been practising,” Netherby School principal Andrew
Leverton said.
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Dolphins prefer cleaner water
A cleaner Whangarei Harbour
may be why a pod of dolphins
has been using it as their playground.
Marine mammal expert In-

grid Visser has praised Whangarei District Council for its new
wastewater treatment process
which has eliminated the largest
pathogen source entering the
harbour. “Finally the dolphins
that are frequenting our harbour

are not being harmed by our
pollution,” she said.
At Wednesday’s WDC infrastructure and services committee, councillor Sue Glen said six
large dolphins were spotted in
the harbour last week. Ms Vis-

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said while she has many years of
records of dolphins and whales
entering the harbour, it is now a
healthier environment for them.
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A former accountant jailed for
stealing more than $4.2 million
from one family has had his
appeal against his sentence
dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
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Cycleways bid may become a reality
BY SUE NEWMAN

SUE.N@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

A group of students who took
their concerns to the Ashburton District Council might have
scored an overnight success.

At a recent council initiated
youth forum, students from
Netherby School put the case
for increasing the number of
cycle ways around Ashburton.
In particular they wanted the
western cycle lane to be extend-

ed to take in Harrison Street.
At the council’s operations
committee meeting on Thursday, councillor Robin Kilworth
took the students’ request to her
peers and suggested the council
should look at including the

cycleway extension in its road
marking budget.
“This seems to be a reasonable request,” she said.
The council has approved the
final year of its roadmarking
contract with Spraymarks that

will see a full remark of streets
undertaken between January
and June.
Council contracts manager
Brian Fauth said that the cycleway work could become part
of the remarking work.

■ SUPER 15 WINNERS DECIDED

Competition winners
get their prizes
After 16 rounds of rugby and
several play-off matches, Darryl Burrows, of Allen’s Ashburton, and David Rush, of Vision
Insurance, could not be separated in the Ashburton Guardian Super 15 business tipping
competition.
Both Ashburton rugby experts were awarded shared custody of the annual trophy during a presentation by Guardian
sales and marketing manager
Desme Daniels at Braided Rivers last night.
The two business men were
locked together after the semifinals, and astonishingly managed to pick identical scores for
the final, so ended up sharing
the spoils.

Both winners will have the
trophy on their mantelpiece for
six months each while Mr Rush
generously offered the grand
prize, of two tickets for next
month’s Bledisloe Cup match to
Mr Burrows.
Mr Rush had already sourced
tickets for the match in Dunedin which avoided a potentially
heart-breaking tie-breaker.
John Drayton was also on
hand to collect his tickets for the
Bledisloe test for winning the
Guardian online readers tipping
competition.
Mr Drayton narrowly pipped
an Australian entrant for top
prize which also avoided a rather tricky trans-Tasman standoff.

Above: The two winners in the Ashburton Guardian Super
15 business tipping competition Darryl Burrows (left), of
Allen’s Ashburton, and David Rush, of Vision Insurance
with their spoils.
Left: Guardian sales and marketing manager Desme Daniels (left) and Guardian general manager and financial
controller Nikki Cameron congratulate John Drayton on
winning the Guardian online readers’ tipping competition.

RAY KNIGHT

Ray has been involved with Real Estate in
Ashburton since 1984. Ray qualified as an
Architectural Draughtsman in 1974 and is
currently a licensed salesperson involved
with both residential and commercial sales
and also a Licensed Building Practitioner
(design). Specialising in townhouse
development/subdivisions and latterly in
commercial property management Ray has
all the skills to carry out a job competently.
In his spare time Ray enjoys gardening,
travelling and spending time with his
grandchildren.

The Ashburton Domain could
become a victim of progress
when traffic improvement work
is carried out on Walnut Avenue.
When a roundabout or traffic lights are installed at the
intersection of Walnut Avenue
and State Highway One, access points into the domain will
change and that is worrying the

domain’s manager David Askin.
The
Ashburton
District
Council open spaces manager
is questioning the range of access options the New Zealand
Transport Agency has come up
with and said all would be intrusive and would impact on the integrity of the domain.
“It concerns me that a lot of
these entrance way options are
short term at best. There hasn’t

been any research done about
which direction people come
from to enter and exit the domain.
“This information is important to have before we decide on
the entrance,” he said.
His preferred option is for the
main domain access to be from
Grigg and Elizabeth Streets.
Work is underway on a management plan for the domain

and this will flow on into a development plan for its future. Mr
Askin believes that management
plan should determine where
the main entrance should be.
“The gardens are there
for passive use, to be walked
through, not for parking. I’d like
to think a bit more thought goes
into where we put the entrance
to our domain. The options
NZTA have given would ruin

the domain. They would mean
taking out trees and they would
go right through our yard.”
Mr Askin asked councillors to
consider having on site surveys
carried out to find out where domain users came from and what
their main use was of the area.
“We need data not just for this
but for the development plan for
what we do with the domain in
the future.”

Two keen skiers living the dream on Mt Hutt skifield
BY SUSAN SANDYS

SUSAN.S@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Mount Hutt College students
who like hanging out on Mt
Hutt can become sponsored to
do just that, under a new Parklife Riders programme.
The school and the skifield
have joined to launch the programme, and have chosen the
first two students for this winter.
Seventeen-year-olds
Kenji
Boekholt and Jack Balloch are
enjoying spending their weekends doing what they love to do
best – skiing in the case of Kenji
and snowboarding for Jack.
They get a free season’s pass,
free hot chocolates, free entry into the Mt Hutt Academy
training programme and clothing and equipment sponsorship.
It is any young powderhound’s dream, and it is a project Mt Hutt expects will be
popular with some of its more
enthusiastic skiers and riders.
“We see them up here all the
time, a lot of children from
Mount Hutt College are up here
all the time every weekend,”
general manager James Urquhart said.
Each May the skfield will consider written applications, and
two will be chosen by college
PE teacher Glen Currie and
Mt Hutt head of terrain Matt

Turner. Mr Urquhart said those
eligible have to not only be enthusiastic free skiers/snowboarders and terrain park fans,
but also be good role models.
“They don’t necessarily have
to be the best skier in the terrain park,” Mr Urquhart said.
Those chosen for the programme did not necessarily
need to have a skifield-related
career goal, and Mt Hutt would
want to see them go on to pursue whatever education they
wanted to.
“A lot of staff who work for
us on the mountain have all got
degrees so we would rather encourage that first,” he said.
Kenji and Jack are regulars
in the ski area’s terrain park.

Jack’s favourite trick is a big
slow front three, while Kenji’s is
a back swap to 270 out.
Jack’s motto is “just do it”,
while Kenji’s advice to younger riders is “do what you love,
don’t let anybody stop you”.
Right: Parklife Rider Kenji Boekholt of Methven gets air in Mt
Hutt’s terrain park.
Below: Mt Hutt’s new Parklife
Riders are Kenji Boekholt (second from right) and Jack Balloch (third from right). They are
pictured with (from left) Mt Hutt
Ski Area academy instructor
Greg Young, terrain park head
of department Matt Turner and
ski area manager James McKenzie.

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Ashburton Guardian

Saturday, August 17, 2013

www.guardianonline.co.nz

Platform poetr
The war years
T

imes were
ing patients’ who came
tough during
in to be served, then
World War
there were others who
Two, but so were those
were badly injured
seconded to work on
who lay in beds. We
the railways.
had to take the food
Florence Childs
out to the orderlies for
started work in the
them – but we didn’t
refreshment rooms in
go into those carriages,
1943, in the midst of
we weren’t allowed in
World War Two – at
there.
a time when people
“On Sundays, Tueswere directed to work
days and Fridays we
in essential industries
stayed on for the end
to maintain the war
shift, we met the night
effort.
express and the early
Seventeen-year-old
morning train at 4am.
Florence Childs
Florence was sent to
The average number
the railway station,
of passengers was at
after she developed a wool allergy at
least 500. “And every day we scrubbed
the Tekau factory.
the floor on our hands and knees, and
“Because it was an essential industry polished the brass surrounds on the
I was transferred to another essential
coil mats.
industry – I was put to work in the
“We worked six and a half days a
refreshment rooms.
week – it was a very different life.
“We worked long hours and broken
“Each day you signed your time
shifts, there were at least two trains
book, and depending on what shift
north and two south every day, with
you were on you earned £5-7 for the
seven or eight hundred passengers on
fortnight.
each – the trains stopped for eight to
But for all the long hours and hard
10 minutes.
work, Florence recalls good times too.
“We started at 7am making sand“We made some great friendships –
wiches, we had a break from 11am and
we had come through the depression
were back at 2pm – except for those
years and we had learned to work hard.
who stayed to serve the railcar.
“I remember the big snow of 1943,
“Then there were the troop trains
you couldn’t see the edge of the platwith soldiers going back from final
form – we had to melt snow to make
leave, and the wounded trains with
tea.”
soldiers coming through – there was
Florence worked at the station for 18
usually one or two carriages of ‘walkmonths, leaving when the war ended.

T

he station was
half wanting to be fed.
the hub of the
It cost four pence each
town when the
for tea, coffee, a sandMaynes family arrived
wich and cake and tupin Ashburton. Few
pence each for a sugar
people had cars and
bun.”
with rationing of petrol
During holidays they
during the war, trains
had to serve two trains,
where preferred for long
one at 10am and another
distances.
at 10.30am.
When sisters ColThe girls would scrub
leen and Maureen’s
floors singing the latest
mother was resting up
pop songs, wash mounin Christchurch after
tains of dishes and make
giving birth to brother
enough sandwiches
Brian the girls took up
to feed an army, at 15
lodgings with Mrs Hanyears old it was just fun
Maureen Batchelor
rahan across the road
for good money. In the
from the station.
holidays they worked
They started the school year and their full-time and earned around 15 pounds
father began his new position as train
a fortnight.
examiner. The platform became the
In her teens Maureen had a boygirls playground, riding the cumberfriend in the luggage department who
some luggage trolleys and racing each
wouldn’t put a free sticker on her case
other on the overhead bridges, playing
which was worth a bob.
chicken with the smoke stacks as trains
He was soon told to get lost if he
pulled into the station under the overdidn’t. “I saw it as a perk of the job, just
head bridges, using the engine turntable like every railway man in Ashburton
as a merry-go-round until they were
who had a large pink wooden railways
caught and told off, lying against the
wheelbarrow.”
fence by the railroad track to see if it
Colleen went on to permanent staff
was true that the train sucked you under when she left school and later worked in
– they only did that once!
the bookstall until it closed in the 50s.
While at high school, the two girls
“We were lucky to have privilege
worked in the refreshment rooms.
tickets which allowed us to travel free,
“The first time the passengers raced
so Colleen and I went on what we
through the doors was pretty scary for
called our OE in 1951 when we toured
us.
the North Island, in those days people
“In those days you could have a total
didn’t travel much further than 50 miles
of 900 passengers on board, more than
so it was quite an adventure.”

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The fifties

ry

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For decades the Ashburton railway station was a hive
of activity, and behind the scene scores of employees
kept the trains rolling through. Six people who worked
at the station share their memories with chief reporter
MICHELLE NELSON.

Post-war 1947
T

he railway offered
a secure future – a
job for life with
prospects and perks.
However, during the
prohibition years, alcohol
was forbidden – and acquiring a tipple required
planning.
Eric Jamieson’s first job
was at the Ashburton railway station, when Archie
Ritchie was the station
master.
He was just 16 years
old when he started work
Eric Jamieson
in 1947, as a clerk in the
goods shed.
“It was a busy place, with passenger trains going
both ways, north and south – at least three each way a
day and more in the holidays, and freight trains mixed
up in that too. There were also branch lines to Mt Somers and Methven.”
Eric’s job was to collect the invoices, compile a list
and telephone the people who were receiving the
goods, and organise transport for firms who didn’t have
their own carriers.
He was then moved into the parcels office, where his
boss was Dan Dooling.
These were prohibition years, when the supply of
booze went underground.
“Every Saturday night there was a dance in the Radiant Hall, run by the Scottish Society. Some places, like
Rakaia and Methven, had hotels. Some guys, who shall
remain nameless, turned up with our booze supplies.
“So the question was where to have a drink before the
dance?
“We ended up in the parcels office.”
Mr Ritchie, lived on the other side of West Street,
where the new museum complex is now under construction.
“He saw the lights on and sprung us – that was the
end of drinking in the parcel office.”

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I

rwin Hands coined
the nickname Ike
when he started
work at the Ashburton Railway Station in
1947 – and it’s stuck
with him ever since.
At 17, Ike’s first job
was as a roustabout
on the platform. Like
many others there was
a family connection: “I
had two sisters working in refreshment.
“I remember the
stationmaster telling
Ike Hands
me – ‘you can break
whatever you like but
if you steal anything – even a ha’penny – you
will be down the road before you know what’s
hit you’.”
On one occasion, “a heap of beer crates” arrived with no invoice.
“After a while the boys started taking a bottle
here and there.”
When the rightful owner finally turned up to
collect the consignment, a “quick whip around
of the hat” was necessary to replace the pilfered
booze.
During his early years on the job, Ike also
worked as a cup boy, travelling on the train to
Timaru and collected the railway-issue crockery
and repeating the process on the journey back to
Ashburton.
As his career progressed Ike became the guard
on the Mt Somers line, looking after passengers
and managing the work sheets. He was also
responsible for shunting between stations.
Those who worked at the railway station enjoyed an active social club.
“Beer used to come in five and 10 gallon kegs
back then. We had many good times.”
Ike worked for railways for 27 years, including
a stint in Christchurch.

ew Zealand was enjoying a boom time, the
economy was strong
and businesses were growing.
Ken Wills was an afterschool
“cup boy” for the “girls in the
refreshment room”, gathering
up the cups after the passengers’ eight-minute refreshment
stops.
“Sometimes we ran short of
cups and I would get on the
train going up to Rakaia and
pick up the cups, then catch the
railcar back to Ashburton.”
That was in 1958.
“We used to have a slow train
from Ashburton to Christchurch, it left at 8.15am and
stopped everywhere – it got
to Christchurch at 11.30am,
and was back in Ashburton at
4.30pm – I remember it used
to bring cabbages and caulis
– it was known as the cabbage
train.”
“The last day the cabbage
train ran we put detonators on
the line – they went off like
bombs when the train came
through – bang, bang, bang!”
In the years of compulsory
military conscription, Ken
saw a lot of troop trains pass
through the station.
“Instead of asking the girls
for a bread roll, some of them

Ken Wills
asked for a bed roll.”
He left his after-school job to
“join up” for military training.
Another sign of the times
were the carriages transporting “borstal boys” off to youth
prisons.
“We used to take (refreshment) trolleys out to them, and
every cup and saucer had to
be counted, in case they used
broken crockery to get up to no
good.
For an afterschool job railways paid well, Ken said, £1820 a week, which was “good
money for a kid”.
“When they put the buffet
car on they killed stations like
Ashburton.”

The sixties

A

s the memories of depression and war faded,
a new culture emerged –
the swinging 60s brought new
freedom, new music and the
railway offered its young employees opportunity to explore
the world outside Ashburton.
When Judith Murchie started
working in the reception area
in 1963, she carried on a family
tradition – both her parents
worked at the railway station;
her future husband Hughie
worked there part-time, as did
his father, and grandfather
before him.
“A lot of people were employed at the station and by
railways,” Judith said.
One of her key jobs was to
take orders from all the nearby
stations, to Rakaia in the north
to Rangitata in the south, along
with Methven and Mt Somers.
The mail came by train in
those days, and was delivered to
the post office.
However, a favourite memory
of Judith’s is when she had to
announce the arrival of the express train on Friday evenings;
after calling its departure,
and often hopping on board
with her friends for a night in
Christchurch
“It left about 6.15pm – we
would go out for the evening
and catch the 11pm train back
to Ashburton. It got in at 12am.
We had so much fun.
“The day the Wahine sunk

Judith Murchie
also stands out – the stationmaster (John Ford) kept coming
in and out asking if it (the
interisland ferry) had gone over
yet. Later in the day we learned
his son was on the boat – he
was travelling with a cricket
team; he did survive.
“We had so much fun – I
remember we hid notes in the
walls. I went to see the people
demolishing the station and
told them to keep an eye out for
them.”
For many years Judith has
biked passed the derelict standing and recalled the days when
it was the hub of the town.
“It’s a shame they couldn’t
save it, it was such an important part of our history,” she
said.

Updated Notice of Intended Marriage forms arrived
at the Ashburton registry
office early this week, but
they’ve been kept locked
away until today.
The new forms give each
person the option of being listed as a bride, bridegroom or partner, in preparation for the first same-sex
marriages on Monday.
With a minimum of
three days required after
the form is filed before a
marriage licence can be issued, it will take extreme
organisation for same-sex
couples hoping to have the
paperwork ready by Monday.
However plenty seem
ready to take the challenge
on, with more than 500 of
the new forms downloaded the first day they were
available online this week.

Ashburton marriage celebrant Carol Gunn said
that she hadn’t had any enquires from same-sex couples wanting to be married
in Mid Canterbury.
She said that while it
was an important piece of
legislation nationally, she
didn’t expect it to affect
many local couples.
However, around the
country the competition is
fierce for same-sex couples
hoping to be the first to tie
the knot in New Zealand,
with several couples already lined up to be married first thing on Monday
morning.
Some will not only get a
chance at making the history books but be watched
by the nation as they say ‘I
do’, with marriages sponsored by Tourism NZ and
several radio stations.
Even Air New Zealand
is sponsoring a unique cer-

emony, as an Auckland couple will marry while flying
high on a flight between
Queenstown and Auckland,
with gay star of the US TV
show Modern Family, Jesse
Tyler Ferguson, among the
guests.
Of the 515 new marriage
forms downloaded on Monday, 93 were downloaded
by overseas applicants, the
majority from Australia,
while 62 forms for changing from a civil union to a
marriage were downloaded
on the same day.
Our neighbours across
the ditch aren’t the only
ones interested in tying the
knot in New Zealand, as
the forms were also downloaded in Germany, Scotland, Texas, London and
across Asia.
The first of the new
forms can be filed today at
the public office at the AshThe new form on top of the old old one.
burton District Council.

Community key to finding out state of roads
BY SUE NEWMAN

SUE.N@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

When it came to finding out
the real state of rural roads, the
Ashburton District Council has
discovered that the community
is key in providing answers.
Complaints about the state of
unsealed rural roads have been
constant and the council was
struggling to keep up to date
on the state of those roads. It
decided to establish a reference
group of users and rural residents to be its eyes and ears. And
it’s paid off.
At a meeting of the council’s
operations committee this week,
chairman John Leadley said the
first meeting of the group had
yielded a wealth of information.
Because road conditions could

change quite rapidly, the reference group would be invaluable
in keeping council up to speed
with maintenance needs, he said.
“It’s highlighted the changes
in rural industry that has significant impact on roading and
traffic counts in rural areas. The
information we’ve gained will
result in better use of our contractors and our money.”
Councillor Stuart Wilson surveyed roads in the south western
quadrant and said the area had
41 per cent of the district’s unsealed roads.
While the first reference
group was a pilot, councillor
Neil Brown said it’s early success indicated the project should
be expanded to include other rural areas as quickly as possible.

In brief
Name released
Police have released the name
of a motorcyclist killed in a
collision with a car on State
Highway 6 at Motupiko near
Nelson on Wednesday. He was
Kelly Brian Williams, 55 years, of
Christchurch. The death has been
referred to the coroner.
-APNZ

Woman rescued
An elderly woman was rescued
from her vehicle by ﬁreﬁghters
after driving off the road into
Wellington harbour yesterday
morning. The 91-year-old drove
into the water in Sorrento Bay just
after 11am, police said. Wellington
police shift inspector Bruce
Mackay said it was unclear what
had caused her to leave the road,
but there was no barrier at that
point between road and water. The
woman was trapped in her vehicle
for about 20 minutes.
- APNZ

Three-horse race
Wanganui’s mayoralty will be a
three-horse race with incumbent
Annette Main facing challengers
from former mayor Michael
Laws and long-serving district
councillor Ray Stevens. While Ms
Main signalled her intent before
nominations opened, both Mr
Stevens and Mr Laws held back
their announcements until just
before nominations closed at
midday yesterday.
-APNZ

Petition ignored
A petition to prevent a Tauranga
pensioner from feeding seagulls
will not stop him from feeding
them daily. George Shaw handfeeds up to 50 gulls a day from
the ﬁrst-ﬂoor balcony of his
14th Ave home. His neighbours
said they were fed up with their
washing and homes being
splattered with bird poop. They
appealed to the Tauranga City
Council to get the Mr Shaw to
stop but the council has no bylaw
preventing people from feeding
seagulls.
-APNZ

Clan lab busted
An alleged clandestine drug lab in
a picturesque region at the top of
the South Island has been raided
by police. No one was home
when police smashed what they
believe was a laboratory used for
the manufacture of illegal drugs
at a property in the Pelorus area
yesterday.
-APNZ

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The police officer who jumped
into Tauranga Harbour to save
the life of a crash victim said the
ordeal had taken its toll physically and emotionally.
Constable Deane O’Connor
was first on the scene after a
van plunged off the Maungatapu Bridge into the harbour on
Monday evening, and jumped in

to save one of the victims.
Another man, Gregory Mark
Woledge, 24, was trapped underwater and died.
Mr O’Connor said as he arrived at the scene people told
him someone was in the water,
going under and screaming for
help.
He immediately took his police safety vest off. “I hadn’t even
made a decision at that point;

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Students
float fitness
track idea
BY SUE NEWMAN

SUE.N@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Ask Thornton Birchler and Cory Paul
what they think Ashburton needs and
they’ll tell you a running track in the
domain could be a big community asset.
The two Wakanui School students
outlined their ideas for improving life
in Ashburton at a recent Ashburton
District Council youth forum and said
that upgrading the Ashburton Domain
fitness track would be an easy and cost
effective way of providing an exercise
option for people.
While they said a lot more could be
done with the running track in the domain’s oval, that would come with a high
cost, but the current fitness track could
be improved and would then be better
used, they said.
Currently, the students said, the track
was not well signposted, it was in poor
condition and it wasn’t well used.
“The existing trail is mainly a dirt
track making it slippery and dangerous
when wet. That could be fixed with a
cheap surface such as bark and gravel,”
Thornton said.
Cory was concerned that the trail was
poorly lit and said solar powered glow
strips would make it much more user
friendly in low light and in the evening.
The students suggested that adding markers every few hundred metres
on the 4.2 kilometre track would make
it easier for people to work their way
along the 20 stations on the track.
They suggested that a map should
be displayed at the start of the track to
give users an idea of where they were
going and what to expect.

Toxic levels
The Southern District Health Board has
accepted fault in its treatment of a Dunedin patient who likely died from having toxic levels of a drug used to treat
schizophrenia.
A coroner’s inquest into the death of
Dunedin woman Marion Novak, 49,
who died in August 2011, heard she
most likely died as a result of having
toxic levels of the drug clozapine in her
system. In a post-mortem examination,
a toxic level of the drug was found in
her system.
-APNZ

hadn’t thought about jumping
in. For some reason I just took
the vest off and threw it in the
back of the car.
“I went to the bridge, someone had a torch on him and I
saw him go under the water and
then come back up again. I just
started stripping down. I could
hear someone saying ‘someone
has to do something’; and some
people saying ‘you can’t go in,

you won’t make it’ and I kind of
just ignored that.
“It was a calculated risk - I
assessed the situation pretty
quickly. I’ve never felt fear like
it. I was shaking and am not
sure whether that was the cold
or the anticipation of what I was
about to do.
“It was only when I climbed
over the rail that I actually started thinking ‘what am I doing?’

and then I saw him go under
again and for that split second
everything went calm and I just
jumped.”
Mr O’Connor said his heart
went out to the family of Greg
Woledge, who died in the crash.
“It was one of the difficult
things while we were in the water because he [the passenger]
knew his friend was gone,” Mr
O’Connor said.
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Family hanging on Coroner’s finding
BY HAMISH MCNEILLY
A coroner’s finding into the
death of a former Dunedin
woman - whose family believe
was killed rather than she killed
herself - is set to be revealed
next week.
Nadine Ana Haag, 33, was
found dead in her Sydney apartment on December 3, 2009.
Police later concluded Nadine

took her own life after a suicide
note, pills and razor was found
at the scene.
Yesterday, a spokesman for
the New South Wales coroner
confirmed the finding would be
released next Friday, following a
five-day inquest in August 2012.
Following that confirmation,
Mss Haag’s Dunedin-based family issued a statement saying
“This has been a long and har-

rowing process with the fourth
anniversary of Nadine’s death
in less than four months”.
“While we are eager for the
coroner’s finding to be released,
we understand that his decision
dictates the path of our family’s
future.”
The finding would determine
if the case would be re-opened.
“We do not believe that Nadine committed suicide, so are

hoping for a finding that would
warrant further investigations.”
Family members in Dunedin
were hopeful of attending the
release of the coroner’s finding.
Last year’s inquest was the
cumulation of the family’s own
three-year investigation following Nadine’s death.
Evidence gathered by her siblings, who moved to Australia in
the 1990s, included the discov-

ery of a concealed message with
the suicide note saying “He did
it”.
This was found sealed in a police evidence bag and not opened
until Nadine’s sisters gave statements at the Castle Hill Police
Station on December 24, 2009.
That same message was also
found etched into a tile of Nadine’s bathroom by the property’s new tenants.
-APNZ

The levels of participation at a
Scared Scriptless performance
in Methven left the visiting
Christchurch actors asking if
everyone in the audience knew
each other – and in the small
town, it’s quite likely that everyone did.
There was plenty of interaction and a lot of laughter as the
town turned out for the Methven Toy Library fundraiser on
Thursday evening.
One of the highlights of the
evening was a prolapsed cow
uterus turned Shakespearian
drama, which delighted the rural audience.
President Jo Newport said
that it was too early to say how
much the evening raised, but
with over 150 people attending
and the Methven Resort hosting the evening for free, the figures were looking good.
Funds raised from the night
would go towards replacing
some of the larger toys in the
library, which is used by a network of more than 60 families
around Methven to access toys
that they often couldn’t otherwise afford.

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Rita’s 102 and still keen to try new things
BY MYLES HUME

MYLES.H@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Even at 102, Rita Turtill is not
afraid to try something new
Ashburton’s eldest resident

this week joined her daughter Judy Glen at Indian Minar
where she was served up her
first ever traditional Indian
meal by business owner Imran

Khan. “It will be my first time,
I think it’ll be quite flavoursome,” Ms Turtill said before
digging in to her chicken korma.

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Ms Glen said her mother has
always been an adventurous
woman, and was surprised she
had never given Indian food a
try.

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Cash flow still
vital after
retirement
Will you have
enough money to
live comfortably by
the time you retire?
Alan Clarke, author
of Retire Richer – A
Practical Guide For
Everyone Aged 25
to 85, tells us how
much we may need.

W

hen planning for
retirement people in
Mid Canterbury first
have to wonder whether they
will still get superannuation at
65.
It would be a fair bet that
anyone 55 or over today will be
unaffected - the Government
has to give people fair warning
of any changes.
People aged 45 to 55 today
will see the retirement age
gradually increased to 66, and
then 67 and so on.
People under 45 are likely to
hear about the age being increased to 70 and means testing
being brought in.
We all need cash flow during our working lives to feed
ourselves, and we all know how
this works - wages, salaries and
so on.
We all need cash flow after we
retire to feed ourselves, too, but

we don’t know how this works
until we retire.
How much - single retiree?
A single retired person wanting a comfortable living will
need about $35,000 pa.
Government super living
alone rate is $19,000 pa, a
shortfall of $16,000 pa.
How much - retired couple?
A couple wanting a comfortable living will need about
$45,000 pa.
Government super joint rate
is $28,000 pa.
A shortfall of $17,000 pa.
Inflation is a big issue too
“Inflation is when you pay $15
for the $10 haircut you used to
get for $5 when you had hair.”
Sam Ewing.
Other costs
In retirement, people also
tend to spend on the following:
■ $40,000 to upgrade the car
two to three times

■ $10,000 for a new roof
■ $3,000 per eye for cataracts
■ $18,000 to $25,000 for a
new hip or knee
■ $10,000 or more for someone in your family in distress
■ $10,000 to $50,000 in loans
to children that don’t come
back
■ $20,000 to upgrade the
kitchen
■ $10,000 for new carpet
■ $20,000 to alter house to allow for less mobility
■ $? to help educate grandchildren
You won’t incur all of these,
but you will incur some of
them. Investments need to
produce the extra income.
A single retiree today needs
about $400,000 to $500,000 to
produce the extra $16,000 pa.,
plus pay some of the expenses
as above.
A retired couple today needs

about $450,000 to $550,000 to
produce the extra $17,000 pa,
plus pay some of the expenses
as above.
Assuming a 5 per cent net return, 3 per cent inflation, some
of the extra expenses as above,
and funds all used up after 30
years in retirement.
To get a 5 per cent net return
you will need to invest in a conservative to balanced portfolio
of bonds, property and shares,
well diversified, on and offshore.
Can you get there?
A couple age 50 have got the
kids largely off their hands, the
mortgage largely under control
and have surplus income. They
start saving $1000 a month
invested in a balanced portfolio
earning 6 per cent after tax and
fees. By age 67, savings grow to
$350,000.
The couple are in KiwiSaver
and make average contribu-

tions, the funds earn 6 per cent
net return, and should grow to
$150,000 to $200,000 in total,
again by age 67.
Total savings might be
$475,000 to $500,000 – not
quite enough to compensate for
inflation from age 50 to 67 but
well along the right track.
But don’t panic if you fall
short - there are ways to have
a good retirement on less than
the ideal amount, so remember
any saving is good saving.
Note this scenario stacks up
only if they get full government superannuation at age 67.
This article was supplied by
Alan Clarke, author of Retire
Richer - A Practical Guide For
Everyone Aged 25 to 85. Clarke
also blogs on www.investandretire.
co.nz and is an authorised financial adviser whose disclosure statement is available on request and
free of charge.

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■ ERO REPORTS

Schools go
under the
microscope
BY MYLES HUME

MYLES.H@THEGUARDIAN.CO.NZ

Education’s watchdogs have
visited almost half of the Mid
Canterbury schools during the
past year.
The Education Review Office
(ERO) was in Ashburton last
week, when two assessors visited Hampstead and Ashburton Borough schools for their
regulation assessments.
They are the latest Mid Canterbury schools to go under
the microscope, with seven reports made public in the past
year and three visits already
this year.
ERO is an independent government department “that
evaluates and reports on the
education and care of students
in schools and early childhood
services”.
Hampstead School principal
Peter Melrose said it was “an
intense time” when the assessors carried out their three-day
visit, but it gave him the opportunity to showcase his school.
“It’s a time for us to highlight initiatives we are doing
at the school, for example some
of the work we are doing in
maths, and also show the inclusive nature of the school.”
Schools had to have information on hand, and available time slots where assessors
could sit in on classes to review
the work they are carrying out.
While ERO look at what
the school does well, they also

■ CAMROSE ESTATES

Development surges ahead
BY SUSAN SANDYS
Peter Melrose
provide an insight into areas
where schools need to develop,
with a real focus on the ability
to self-review.
Mr Melrose said it was vital
schools were given honest advice and recommendations.
“They come with fresh set
of eyes and fresh knowledge
which is very beneficial. They
visit a number of schools and
have a wealth of experience,”
he said.
Ashburton College is awaiting its latest report after assessors visited in April, with
ERO already meeting with the
Board of Trustees to discuss
its findings.
It is understood ERO will
also be visiting Netherby
School in week six of this term.
ERO usually visit schools
every three years, however if
the school is not performing
up to an acceptable standard it
could visit on a yearly basis.

Development is progressing
rapidly at Methven’s Camrose
Estates subdivision, with construction of seven new homes
to begin within the next few
weeks.
Titles have been issued for
the 32-section stage two, taking the total number of sections with titles in the 164-section subdivision to 44. And
infrastructure establishment
for stage three is expected to
begin later this year.
Development manager Andrew Mason said some of the
stage two sections had presold. To date the subdivision
had four completed homes, four
under construction and building of seven houses would begin within the next few weeks.
Mr Mason said being able to
lock in a building start date had
been a significant drawcard for
many purchasers.
“Interest remains high, especially given we now have titles
issued offering purchasers the

surety of when they can start
building,” Mr Mason said.
More than $1 million of
work has been underway since
the middle of last year on infrastructure such as roading,
power, telephone, water services and fibre optic cable.
“Other features include some
of the most efficient street
lighting on the market, with
controlled light spill to help in
preserving the countryside’s
dark skies that inland Canterbury is so well known for,
whilst retaining good ambient street lighting,” Mr Mason
said.
Stage three will be built in
two parts - to the south with
an extension of Grace Ireland
Drive into the newly constructed Alan Lochhead Green reserve, and to the north with an
extension of Camrose Avenue
through to Grace Ireland Drive
and Mt Hutt Station Road.
In keeping with the development’s strong community connection, a new street had been
created within the latest release

– Alma Place – in recognition
of Alma Lochhead who, together with her late husband
Alan, donated their land to the
Lochhead Charitable Trust.
Construction had utilised local people and materials. As an
example, stone for walls that
mark the eastern and western
entrances and unique pedestrian bridges crossing over green
storm water swales had been
sourced from the flanks of Mt
Hutt and was laid by Methven
stonemason Murray Wagstaff.

Rosey Crone had a talent for relating to the needy

S

eeing God in every aspect
of nature, human endeavour and spirituality
makes a huge difference to
how we approach our work,
profession and everyday life.
Social worker Rosey Crone
who died last month used her
considerable qualifications and
talent for relating to the needy
in all walks of life backed up by
her unwavering belief that God
is present in every part of our
day-to-day living.
After graduating with a BA
in Social Sciences from the University of York Rosey worked
in every field of social work
from child care to youth work
and care of the elderly.
In Ashburton she worked
in family placement, caregiver

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liaison and care and protection, moving on to Mayfield
School, then the support unit at
Ashburton College where she
was much loved by the Year 9
to 13 pupils.
Presbyterian Support’s Jackie
Girvan said it was her good
fortune to appoint Rosey as
older people’s social worker.
“ Rosey was a fantastic
person – she was fearless but
so gentle and non-judgemental
with her older clients. She
went into bat for them and was
a strong advocate who didn’t

take no for an answer if she felt
they weren’t getting a fair deal.
“Unfailingly in our evaluations from clients and verbal
feedback, Rosey’s clients and
their relatives always spoke
highly of her and appreciated
her help.
“As well as working with
individuals Rosey had other
strings to her bow – she was a
great organiser.
“She resurrected the Christmas Community Lunch in 2007
(I think husband Colin and the
girls were roped in to help on
the day).
“It was a great success and
her blueprint for that event is
still used today.
“Then along with Delwyn
Moylan, Rosey did all the

background work to get the
first foot clinic up and running in Methven. She would be
proud to know that there are
now foot clinics operating in
Methven, Allenton and Rakaia
from churches in those areas
run by fabulous groups of
trained volunteers.
Caring for Carers – an organisation from Christchurch
- wanted to set up a support
group for carers in Ashburton
and again Rosey was at the
forefront helping them set that
up in her role as our older person’s social worker.
When Rosey returned from
a visit home to England she
worked for Caring for Carers
in Ashburton and Timaru for a
short period while they recruit-

ed a permanent staff member.
Neighbourhood Support
needed to be resurrected as
well. Rosey stepped up to the
plate for that and it is now
thriving under the leadership
of Sue Wragg who took over
when Rosey became ill’.
Jesus said: “To those who use
well what they are given, even
more will be given and they
will have it in abundance.”
- Matthew 25:29.
Let us, like Rosey, put our
gifts to work in serving others
and work for God in the truest
sense.
Excerpts and thoughts from
eulogies for Rosemary Crone,
a parish councillor at St Paul’s
Presbyterian Church.

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Tall Blacks looking to bounce back
BY KRIS SHANNON
The Tall Blacks proved in game
one of the Fiba Oceania Championships they could more than
match a supposedly superior opponent - for three quarters, that
is.
But, ahead of tomorrow’s
second encounter in Canberra,
coach Nenad Vucinic is confi-

dent his charges can rectify their
fourth-quarter collapse and earn
an unlikely series victory against
Australia.
New Zealand headed into
Wednesday’s opening game on
the North Shore with a young
squad short of a clutch of key
players and they emerged with
what might have appeared a reasonable result.

But their 11-point loss was
met with soul-searching rather
than acceptance, with a lingering feeling among they players
they let a golden opportunity
slip through their grasp.
The Tall Blacks did, after all,
lead by seven at halftime - and
it could have been more. They
trailed by two heading into the
final period, a quarter in which

Australia ramped up their defensive pressure at the same time as
the home side’s shooting went
ice cold.
Tomorrow, the task will be to
win by 12, a necessity in a twogame set which, in truth, has
little riding on the result. But
having already secured a spot at
next year’s world cup has done
nothing to dull the Tall Blacks’

determination to snatch that
double-digit victory, an outcome
attainable only by performing
for all four quarters.
“We can play but we weren’t
happy with the fact we didn’t
play for the whole game,” Vucinic said of game one.
“I’m not a coach that is happy
with playing well in patches.”
- APNZ

10
- With only 10 minutes
of test experience to his name,
Auckland’s Steven Luatua
will start
at blindside
flanker for
the All Blacks
in tonight’s
Bledisloe Cup
test against
Australia
in Sydney. Luatua was a late
replacement for Liam Messam who suffered a hamstring
strain at training yesterday.

20

- During this week’s
fourth Ashes test, English batsman Ian Bell
brought up
his 20th test
century when
he made 113 in
England’s second innings.
Bell’s knock
laid the platform for England
to win by 74 runs. Bell, 31, has
made 6425 runs at an average
of 46.89 in 92 tests.

The sporting week in numbers
Rickie Lambert scored with
his first touch in international
football as he helped England defeat Scotland 3-2 in a
friendly at Wembley yesterday.
Lambert, a 31-year-old former
beetroot factory worker, spared
England’s blushes with a 70thminute header after coming on
as a substitute.

8 - Eight different Wellington Lions crossed the tryline

during their 55-16 rout of
Counties Manukau in the opening match of the ITM Cup in
Pukekohe on Thursday night.
Wings, front-rowers and midfield backs all got in on the tryscoring action as Wellington
started their season in style.

28

65

- While 28 is relatively
old in the world of women’s
tennis, Frenchwoman Marion
Bartoli’s retirement announcement still shocked the
sport. The reigning Wimbledon champion unexpectedly
declared she would hang up
her racket after losing in the
second round of the Cincinnati
Masters yesterday.

31 - Journeyman striker

- With her fourth consecutive athletics world championship, Valerie
Adams joined
an elite band
of athletes to
dominate their
respective disciplines. Sprinter
Michael Johnson,
middle distance runner Hicham

- Kiwi golfer Tim
Wilkinson, who has enjoyed a
great year on the second-tier
Web.com Tour in the USA,
fired a six-under 65 in round
one of the News Sentinel
Open in Nashville, Tennessee
today. Wilkinson’s round was
good enough to see him hold a
share of the lead after the first
round.

4

El Guerrouj and long distance
runner Haile Gebrselassie are
others with four straight titles.

100
- If the All Blacks can
draw first blood in the Bledis-

loe Cup tonight, it will mark
New Zealand’s 100th test victory over the Wallabies from
146 matches. The clash at
Sydney’s Olympic stadium will
be the sides’ 13th at the venue,
with the ledger currently level
at six victories apiece.

at least six runs in back-toback games. Soriano managed
13 runs batted in, as well as
four homers, over the course
of two big wins over the Los
Angeles Angels
of Anaheim.
- APNZ

22

- Lauren Jackson,
widely regarded as
one of the greatest
women’s basketball players of all
time, showed New
Zealand what all
the fuss was about
in her first game
on these shores.
Jackson led all
scorers with 22
points and pulled
down nine rebounds as the
Opals ran out
easy victors
over the Tall
Ferns.

As far as appropriate endings go,
there’s some nice symmetry to the way
Nathan Fien will end his
NRL career. The 34-yearold announced on Thursday
he will be retiring at the
end of the season after
14 years and more
than 270 games.
His final game will
be at home against
the Warriors, who
he played for between
2005 and 2009.

* * * * *
“We had a choice - sit down
with Michael in three weeks and
pretend everything was fine
or be up front and advise him
now.” - Brisbane Lions chairman
ANGUS JOHNSON on the
board’s decision to not renew
Michael Voss’s contract with
three games left this season.
* * * * *
“Over the last few weeks the
silence has been deafening.” Sacked Lions coach VOSS.

13

- New
York Yankess
slugger Alfonso Soriano
enjoyed an
historic 48
hours this
week, becoming the third man
since 1920 to drive in

Big bet

“It’s interesting that the four
of us have been identified as
the blackest day in Australia’s
sporting history now, so we
take that very seriously.” Essendon coach JAMES HIRD
on being charged with bringing
AFL into disrepute.

* * * * *
“I just think the whole thing
is laughable and ludicrous.” STEPHEN DANK, a key figure
in the Bombers’ controversial
supplements program, on the
AFL’s decision to lay charges.

* * * * *
“I’m too lazy to give myself a
squirrel grip.” - Brisbane prop
BEN HANNANT on whether he’d
employ the tackle transgression
that earned South Sydney
counterpart Sam Burgess a
contrary contact charge and
two-match suspension.
* * * * *
“You put your hand on the inside of his legs and if it slides up
and his nuts are at the end of it,
well, what do you do?” - Souths
legend GEORGE PIGGINS on
the Burgess controversy.

SET OF SIX

Fien time

They said it:

Game of the week

There are plenty of reasons why
many fans want the Warriors to make
the playoffs but
one has 30,000.
One punter put
A$30,000 on the
Warriors at the
start of the season
to make the top
eight at A$2.30 to
collect A$69,000.
They probably need to win all four of
their remaining games to sneak in.

There are plenty of crucial encounters
this weekend as teams
jostle for a place in the
top eight - Raiders and
Bulldogs, Cowboys and
Titans, Knights against
the Storm and Warriors
and Penrith. A top-two
finish brings extra reward under a revamped
finals system and the
Bunnies needed to arrest a slump that has
seen them lose three of their last four.

Hoppa to it

Chilling injury

Back in contention

John Hopoate is many things but at
least he can have a laugh at himself.
His strange You Tube video posting
this week - entitled ‘Hopoate has his
finger on the pulse’ in reference to the
fact he was famous for sticking his
finger in dark holes - saw him express
his concern over the fact the NRL was
going soft. Later it showed him with
a bucket list, headed by apologising to
the Manly Sea Eagles and then being
kind to a traffic warden. The world
waits breathlessly to discover what
else was on the list.

You have to feel for Jharal Yow Yeh. The
former Queensland and
Australian winger had
eight operations in 10
months after an horrific
ankle break last year and
was working his way
back only to break
his hand moving a
fridge for his mum.
The 23-year-old
has vowed he’s not
quitting but talk
about cold (dis)comfort.

The Kiwis selectors had assumed Sam
McKendry wouldn’t be available for
the World Cup but they might now
need to change their thinking. The
24-year-old Penrith front rower, who
has played eight tests for the Kiwis,
fractured a vertebrae against the Parramatta Eels in April - he played on
for 10 minutes despite the pain and
even went back on later believing it
was a “stinger” - and some wondered
if he might have to retire. He made
his return against the Cowboys last
week and is due to take on the Warriors on Sunday.

* * * * *
“In your humble opinion do you
think they really use chickens to
make chicken salt?” - Veteran
Melbourne forward JASON
RYLES when crashing his
coach Craig Bellamy’s media
conference.
* * * * *
“You look very silly, obviously.
It was my mistake.” - Socceroos goalkeeper MARK
SCHWARZER on the goal he
conceded from a pass-back
during Chelsea’s pre-season
tour match against Roma.
* * * * *
“I really felt I gave all the
energy I have left inside my
body. I made my dream a
reality and it will stay forever
with me, but now my body just
can’t cope with everything.”
- MARION BARTOLI quits
tennis just weeks after winning
Wimbledon.
- AAP

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In brief
Team NZ the speed kings

They’ve reportedly made some
big breakthroughs in training
over the past two weeks,
but don’t expect Team New
Zealand to reveal their full hand
just yet. The final elimination
of the Louis Vuitton Cup starts
today, with Emirates Team
New Zealand taking on Luna
Rossa in a best-of-13 series for
the right to challenge Oracle
Team USA for the America’s
Cup. Now that they’ve reached
the knock-out rounds and the
stakes are raised, Team NZ
must up the ante. But given
Oracle have access to all their
telemetry data from the race
course it is likely Dean Barker
will opt to keep a few tricks up
his sleeve.
- NZH

The Coronation Smallbore Rifle Club have five ladies lining
up for the South Island in the
inter-island match in Palmerston North this weekend.
Hailey Beevor, Sarah Clifford,

Sandy Collett, Nina McKenzie, Savanna Miller-McArthur
and Coby Snowden will shoot
for the various South Island
women’s teams in the match
against the North Island today
while fellow Mid Canterbury
shooters Greg Menzies and Joe

McAdam will compete in the
men’s teams.
They qualified through their
championship results, shooting
at a minimum of three championships and the best aggregate
scores on the ranking list are
considered by the selectors.

They all shoot in either the
junior, women’s and open
teams against the North Island and at the end of the day
a New Zealand team is selected
to shoot in an international
postal shoot which will be held
tomorrow.

■ HOCKEY

Wakanui sides again on collision course
By Jonathan Leask

jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

The Wakanui men’s teams are
looking to line up against each
other in a second consecutive
Mid-South Canterbury hockey
competition final next week.
Top qualifiers and defending champions Wakanui Black
host Timaru Boys’ while Wakanui Blue travels to Timaru to
take on Northern Hearts in the
semi-finals today.
There will be a sense of déjà
vu in the Wakanui Blue camp
as they head to Timaru to take
on Northern Hearts for a place
in the final, for a third year in a
row.

Blue lost on penalty strokes
in 2011 but recorded an emphatic 8-3 win last year to make
the final, and player-coach Sam
Moore will be drawing on the
latter experience ahead of today’s showdown.
“We have done it before and
I’m confident we have it what
it takes but we’ll need to do
something we haven’t been able
to do all season and beat them,”
Moore said.
Hearts have proved a bogey
team for Blue claiming 3-2
and 4-2 wins during the round
robin but the sides shared a 2-2
draw in their top four clash.
“There are no problems with

the way we are defending lately but we need to make better
use of the ball when we get it
which has been an issue in recent weeks.”
Adding to their woes is striker Hayden Sinclair, who netted
five goals in the fixture last
year, but is playing with a broken finger, although it didn’t
stop him weaving through the
Wakanui Black defence last
week.
The two-time defending
champions have been unbeaten
all season but that will mean
nothing to the plucky schoolboys, fresh from upsetting
Northern Hearts 4-2 last week-

end in the South Canterbury
final.
Black have beaten Timaru
Boys’ 2-1, 6-2 and 4-1 this season and will be hoping to make
it a fourth win to make the final,
chasing a hat-trick of Walker
and Hall Shield victories.
Tinwald also trek to Timaru
to play Tainui in their plate
semi-final.
In the women’s competition
Hampstead host Timaru Girls’
in what will be their final game
of the season while Craighead
and Geraldine meet in a semifinal with defending champions
St Andrews and Pleasant Point
in the other knockout match.

Wanaka residents Lyndon
Sheehan, Beau-James Wells
and Janina Kuzma gave New
Zealand a strong presence in
yesterday’s World Cup freeski
halfpipe finals at Cardrona.
Pick of the bunch was 25-yearold Sheehan, who produced a
terrific performance to qualify
with the second-best score of
85.6 over his two runs, trailing
only classy Canadian Mike
Riddle, who bagged an 85.8 on
the opening day of freeskiing
at the Winter Games. The
withdrawal of the two eldest of
the four Wells brothers, Jossi
and Byron, took some of the
hometown gloss off the event,
but 17-year-old Beau-James
ensured a family presence in the
12-strong final. He registered a
best qualifying score of 81.8 to
achieve the eighth-best mark of
- NZH
the finalists.

Brockie in demand

Jeremy Brockie is due to return
to Wellington at the end of the
month but Toronto are keen to
get the Phoenix and All Whites
striker back next year and
might even be preparing a bid
to secure him on a permanent
deal. The 25-year-old has
spent the past three-and-ahalf months with the MLS club
coached by former All Whites
captain Ryan Nelsen and made
enough of an impression for
Toronto to enquire whether
they could keep him for
longer. He has scored only
one goal in 13 appearances
but impressed with his work
ethic and approach as Nelsen
tries to turn Toronto into a
competitive outfit after years of
underachievement.
- APNZ

Bolt into semi-finals

Two-time defending champion
Usain Bolt yesterday safely
negotiated his way into the
semi-finals of the 200m at the
World Athletics Championships.
The 26-year-old Jamaican, who
won the 200m titles in Berlin in
2009 and Daegu in 2011 and is
also double Olympic champion
and world record holder, clocked
an easy-going 20.66sec. After
a good start, Bolt was up on
the field in a matter of metres
and seemed to ease off fully
40 metres from the finish line.
“I’m feeling good. I’m not a
morning person. I worked really
hard this week,” said Bolt, who
has been nursing a sore foot
after regaining his 100m title on
Sunday. He will be joined by all
the main favourites in the semifinals, with the final to round off
the evening session of day eight
- AFP
at Luzhniki Stadium.

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Ashburton Guardian 23

In brief
Team NZ the speed kings

They’ve reportedly made some
big breakthroughs in training
over the past two weeks,
but don’t expect Team New
Zealand to reveal their full hand
just yet. The final elimination
of the Louis Vuitton Cup starts
today, with Emirates Team
New Zealand taking on Luna
Rossa in a best-of-13 series for
the right to challenge Oracle
Team USA for the America’s
Cup. Now that they’ve reached
the knock-out rounds and the
stakes are raised, Team NZ
must up the ante. But given
Oracle have access to all their
telemetry data from the race
course it is likely Dean Barker
will opt to keep a few tricks up
his sleeve.
- NZH

The Coronation Smallbore Rifle Club have five ladies lining
up for the South Island in the
inter-island match in Palmerston North this weekend.
Hailey Beevor, Sarah Clifford,

Sandy Collett, Nina McKenzie, Savanna Miller-McArthur
and Coby Snowden will shoot
for the various South Island
women’s teams in the match
against the North Island today
while fellow Mid Canterbury
shooters Greg Menzies and Joe

McAdam will compete in the
men’s teams.
They qualified through their
championship results, shooting
at a minimum of three championships and the best aggregate
scores on the ranking list are
considered by the selectors.

They all shoot in either the
junior, women’s and open
teams against the North Island and at the end of the day
a New Zealand team is selected
to shoot in an international
postal shoot which will be held
tomorrow.

■ HOCKEY

Wakanui sides again on collision course
By Jonathan Leask

jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

The Wakanui men’s teams are
looking to line up against each
other in a second consecutive
Mid-South Canterbury hockey
competition final next week.
Top qualifiers and defending champions Wakanui Black
host Timaru Boys’ while Wakanui Blue travels to Timaru to
take on Northern Hearts in the
semi-finals today.
There will be a sense of déjà
vu in the Wakanui Blue camp
as they head to Timaru to take
on Northern Hearts for a place
in the final, for a third year in a
row.

Blue lost on penalty strokes
in 2011 but recorded an emphatic 8-3 win last year to make
the final, and player-coach Sam
Moore will be drawing on the
latter experience ahead of today’s showdown.
“We have done it before and
I’m confident we have it what
it takes but we’ll need to do
something we haven’t been able
to do all season and beat them,”
Moore said.
Hearts have proved a bogey
team for Blue claiming 3-2
and 4-2 wins during the round
robin but the sides shared a 2-2
draw in their top four clash.
“There are no problems with

the way we are defending lately but we need to make better
use of the ball when we get it
which has been an issue in recent weeks.”
Adding to their woes is striker Hayden Sinclair, who netted
five goals in the fixture last
year, but is playing with a broken finger, although it didn’t
stop him weaving through the
Wakanui Black defence last
week.
The two-time defending
champions have been unbeaten
all season but that will mean
nothing to the plucky schoolboys, fresh from upsetting
Northern Hearts 4-2 last week-

end in the South Canterbury
final.
Black have beaten Timaru
Boys’ 2-1, 6-2 and 4-1 this season and will be hoping to make
it a fourth win to make the final,
chasing a hat-trick of Walker
and Hall Shield victories.
Tinwald also trek to Timaru
to play Tainui in their plate
semi-final.
In the women’s competition
Hampstead host Timaru Girls’
in what will be their final game
of the season while Craighead
and Geraldine meet in a semifinal with defending champions
St Andrews and Pleasant Point
in the other knockout match.

Wanaka residents Lyndon
Sheehan, Beau-James Wells
and Janina Kuzma gave New
Zealand a strong presence in
yesterday’s World Cup freeski
halfpipe finals at Cardrona.
Pick of the bunch was 25-yearold Sheehan, who produced a
terrific performance to qualify
with the second-best score of
85.6 over his two runs, trailing
only classy Canadian Mike
Riddle, who bagged an 85.8 on
the opening day of freeskiing
at the Winter Games. The
withdrawal of the two eldest of
the four Wells brothers, Jossi
and Byron, took some of the
hometown gloss off the event,
but 17-year-old Beau-James
ensured a family presence in the
12-strong final. He registered a
best qualifying score of 81.8 to
achieve the eighth-best mark of
- NZH
the finalists.

Brockie in demand

Jeremy Brockie is due to return
to Wellington at the end of the
month but Toronto are keen to
get the Phoenix and All Whites
striker back next year and
might even be preparing a bid
to secure him on a permanent
deal. The 25-year-old has
spent the past three-and-ahalf months with the MLS club
coached by former All Whites
captain Ryan Nelsen and made
enough of an impression for
Toronto to enquire whether
they could keep him for
longer. He has scored only
one goal in 13 appearances
but impressed with his work
ethic and approach as Nelsen
tries to turn Toronto into a
competitive outfit after years of
underachievement.
- APNZ

Bolt into semi-finals

Two-time defending champion
Usain Bolt yesterday safely
negotiated his way into the
semi-finals of the 200m at the
World Athletics Championships.
The 26-year-old Jamaican, who
won the 200m titles in Berlin in
2009 and Daegu in 2011 and is
also double Olympic champion
and world record holder, clocked
an easy-going 20.66sec. After
a good start, Bolt was up on
the field in a matter of metres
and seemed to ease off fully
40 metres from the finish line.
“I’m feeling good. I’m not a
morning person. I worked really
hard this week,” said Bolt, who
has been nursing a sore foot
after regaining his 100m title on
Sunday. He will be joined by all
the main favourites in the semifinals, with the final to round off
the evening session of day eight
- AFP
at Luzhniki Stadium.

BY GREGOR PAUL
Rested, rehabilitated and ready,
Richie McCaw will begin his final career ascent tonight, determined to push on and lead the
All Blacks in a successful World
Cup defence.
It is a classic case of so
near yet so far - just two
more years in a career that
has already spanned 13.
But it’s the fact that McCaw has been at this lark
since 2001 and that he’s
approaching 33

which makes everyone a little
cautious about his chances.
But it’s also the certainty that
between now and 2015 he’ll be
subjected to a litany of cheap
shots - off the ball assaults
- that adds to the
doubt.
There
are
bits of McCaw
discarded
on
grounds around
the world and
inevitably further chunks
will be
tak-

en as the
insane and
less talented
are charged
with doing
what they can
to stop this
great warrior.
His rugby
genius is not
u n i v e r s a l ly
appreciated.
His ability
to intersperse
the illegal with
the legal has
induced many an
opponent to seek
retribution.
His relentless brilliance is a magnet for
trouble - those not
blessed with his range
of skills fill their heads
with evil thoughts that lead
to evil deeds.
Stop McCaw, stop the All
Blacks - he is their everything
and the Wallabies will be after
him tonight.
They will fancy he’s undercooked, that he can be run off
his feet.
And if they can’t flood him
in a pool of his own lactic acid,
they will no doubt hold him on

the floor where they can; clatter into his undefended areas at
the breakdown; bump him, push
him and let him know they don’t
buy this vision of him as a saint.
If past history is anything to
go by, they will be prepared to
go further if they feel they have
to.
McCaw can’t remember the
last time he played the Wallabies
without a target on his back.
But whatever awaits; whatever plan the Wallabies have
in store for him, he’s going to
relish being the focus of attention again: he’s had almost nine
months away from test football
and he missed it.
“You come to a ground like
here [ANZ Stadium in Sydney]
and the excitement is pretty
high,” he said yesterday.
“I can’t wait to get into it.
I’d quite like to go 80 - I’d
like to go as long as I can.
“I feel mentally in good
shape but I know nothing
compares with the intensity of test rugby.
“I have to make sure I do the
job I am out there to do. If you
look at the last time we played
the Wallabies, we were lucky to
get a draw so it’s about putting
a performance together.”
He gives the impression he’s
genuinely intrigued by what the
Wallabies might try tactically.
He has never been drawn
much previously on the litany
of cheap shots and bad blood between the two sides, yet it’s obvious he’d rather it all stopped.
Not that it bothers him much,
more that it bores him.
That’s the advantage of having been around for as long as
he has, he knows that come
kick-off tonight, all the buildup, hype, verbal promises and
so-called mind games that the
Wallabies think matter, don’t
have any effect.
“We will find out tomorrow I
guess,” he said in regard to what
he expects to encounter under
new coach Ewen McKenzie.
“There is no doubt that coming off the Lions, having a
change of voice, no matter what
it is, is going to add something.
“But they are the same players at the end of the day that we
have played before in tests and
in Super rugby.”
- NZH

Mid Canterbury has their final
pre-season run against Otago B in
Oamaru today before kicking off
the Heartland Rugby Championship at home next weekend.
Coach Glen Moore has made
just a handful of changes to the
side from last week’s promising
33-21 win over the West Coast as
he tinkers towards a starting XV
to take on Poverty Bay in seven
days.
There are two changes to the
forward pack as Ron Manu comes
in to start at prop replacing Simon
Fleetwood in the sides second and
last trial of the new scrum laws.
Andrew Smith, who received a
yellow card against West Coast
last weekend, partners Grant Polson at lock pushing Ross McKay to
the bench while the loose forward
trio remains unchanged.
The backline has Christchurch
halfback Jake Ashby and Japanese
international Murray Williams
get a second start as the inside
back combination while Giddeon Lambrechts partners South-

bridge’s Peni Manumanuniwila in
the midfield.
It will be the first look at another flyer in Glenmark’s Muleli
Bula who is on the left wing after
missing last week’s match to help
his club side beat Oxford 23-19 in
the North Canterbury final, while
Andrew Fluker gets a start at fullback.
Mid Canterbury made a strong
start against the West Coast but
conceded three late tries in a physical 90 minute hit-out and can expect a sterner test from a strong
Otago B side.
The Mid Canterbury Development Squad have their first run of
the season heading to Rugby Park
in Christchurch to play Canterbury Maori Development at 1pm.

Right: Peni Manumanuniwila
will be looking to stand out
in the crowd against Otago B
today.

Last year’s epic semi-final clash
was a distant memory as perennial champions Canterbury
crushed Taranaki by 30-6 in
Christchurch last night.
Taranaki hardly fired a significant shot, one of their few
memorable ones being a high
tackle from the notoriously illdisciplined Jarrad Hoeata which
gifted Canterbury the opening
points of the first round ITM
Cup clash.
Taranaki, who were expected
to give an injury-depleted Canterbury a decent run for their
money, were woefully disappointing.
The home side gave new coach
Scott Robertson an encouraging
start in the province’s quest for a
sixth successive title.
This was a mini-me version of
classic Crusaders rugby squashing the life out of a half-hearted,
mistake ridden opponent.
Trailing 6-15 at the break, any
thoughts of a Taranaki revival
were quickly removed by two

Canterbury strikes in the third
quarter.
Taranaki had saved the best
until last in the first half - a massive Andre Taylor penalty.
But Taylor was also the villain,
his poor decision and execution
on a chip kick having turned a
rare Taranaki attack into a long
range Canterbury try a few minutes earlier.
Canterbury efficiently controlled much of the first spell
with their wings Patrick Osborne
and Milford Keresoma providing
a few sparkling moments.
The champions owned the first
half hour of the match, when
Taranaki could hardly get a hand
on the ball and were camped inside their half.
Just as it seemed the dominance might turn to frustration,
Canterbury constructed a lovely
try, driving a rolling maul down
the left and finding the hint of an
opportunity for Osborne on the
right.
The big wing stepped inside
two defenders, swirled the ball
around in a one-handed basket-

Matt Todd was one of the
more impressive players in
the Canterbury ranks last
night.

quick tap penalty brought the
try.
Taranaki’s error strewn half
found some minor relief at the
break, when Taylor slammed a
50 metre penalty well over the
crossbar.
Canterbury started the game’s
second half in style though,
Bleyendaal sending cross kicks
right then left, the second landing perfectly for lock Luke Katene to steam over for Canterbury’s third try.
A Bleyendaal penalty soon followed prompting Taranaki coach
Colin Cooper to send on a platoon of replacements.
Taranaki might console themselves by knowing they would
struggle to play this badly again.
Any repeats will make for a
troubled season.

ball-style move, and powered
over the line.
Then came Taylor’s shocker
of a chip kick which Osborne
turned into attack.
Impressive flanker Matt Todd’s

Hansen sounds
a warning
BY GREGOR PAUL
The feel-good factor sweeping through Australian rugby
is not without foundation there’s plenty of evidence to
show that new international
coaches often enjoy instant
success.
That success is most pronounced when the succession
was forced - the result of the
previous man not leaving of
his own volition - which is the
situation in Australia.
Ewen McKenzie was coach
of the Reds a few weeks ago,
now he’s apparently some
kind of rugby messiah. A new
coach means a new beginning
- fresh hope, a clean slate and
the impossible becoming possible.
The transformation has
been stunning. A nation now
believes it has a man at the
helm who is capable of instilling in the Wallabies enough
belief and clever ploys to finally end the All Black era of
dominance.
It seems illogical that McKenzie can arrive a few weeks
after the shattering loss to the
Lions, wave his magic wand at
under-performing troops and
hey presto, start his tenure

with a win against the best side
in the world. But it has happened often with other international sides, and that’s why
the All Blacks expect to be facing fire and brimstone tonight.
“They will turn up and give
it everything they have got,”
says All Black coach Steve
Hansen. “So we need to match
that intensity or better it.”
Aware of the danger they
face tonight, the All Blacks
have tried to increase the
pressure on the Wallabies by
airing thoughts about an alternative scenario. Hansen has
asked them, what if they don’t
get the result they think they
will with McKenzie in charge?
The nation is convinced
the new coach has picked the
right team and he’ll play the
right way. But what if all this
certainty and hope crashes tonight on a black wave of destruction?
“Australia haven’t had a
great run against us for a wee
while now and that has all been
attributed to Robbie Deans
which I think is a bit unfair.
“Everyone seems to think
Ewen is going to make a difference so there has to be a lot
of pressure there - what if it
doesn’t work?”
- NZH

Having been left out of the All
Blacks’ Bledisloe Cup squad,
Piri Weepu will have to content
himself with an appearance
in the Battle of the Bridge
on Sunday afternoon. The
71-test veteran will provide
vast experience at halfback in
Wayne Pivac’s Auckland team,
who take on local rivals North
Harbour at Eden Park to begin
both sides’ ITM Cup campaigns.
Auckland’s starting XV
features 10 players who have
played Super Rugby, including
second five-eighths Hadleigh
Parkes who will captain the
team after returning from a
season in South Africa with
the Southern Kings. Pivac said
he couldn’t wait to kickstart
his side’s campaign after a
thrilling opening ITM Cup
match between Wellington and
Counties Manukau.
- APNZ

Wellington shows hand

Wellington’s fringe and
overlooked All Blacks were
to the fore as Tana Umaga’s
Counties Manukau suffered
a nightmare start in the provincial rugby premiership at
Pukekohe on Thursday night.
Counties Manukau is the home
of running rugby but it was
Wellington who went on a
terrific eight-try rampage in a
55-16 victory. While Wellington
stamped themselves as
contenders, the Steelers
disintegrated and disappointed
captain Fritz Lee said: “We’re in
the premiership now and we’ve
got to play and act like we are.”
The Steelers would have hoped
an early season clash at home
and their attack-minded Chiefs
might give them an underdog’s
chance, but the game was
virtually beyond them at
halftime.
- APNZ

Winning ‘not negotiable’

With history stacked against
them, the Wallabies know
Australia can all but kiss the
Bledisloe Cup goodbye for a
12th straight year if they can’t
topple the All Blacks in Sydney
tonight. Skipper James Horwill
admits a victory in the series
opener at ANZ Stadium is not
negotiable ahead of games
two and three in Wellington
on Saturday week and at
Dunedin’s House of Pain on
October 19. The Wallabies
haven’t beaten the mighty
All Blacks in New Zealand in
successive Tests of a series
since 1949 and haven’t won
at all across the Tasman since
2001 - 15 matches ago.
- AAP

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■ BOXING

Hearing may be delayed

AFL chief executive Andrew
Demetriou admits the league’s
action over the Essendon
supplements scandal could
drag on well after August 26.
On Tuesday the AFL charged
Essendon, coach James Hird
and senior club officials Dr
Bruce Reid, Danny Corcoran
and Mark Thompson with
conduct unbecoming or
bringing the game into disrepute. The AFL Commission is
scheduled to hear the charges
on August 26, but there is
strong speculation about looming court injunctions.
- AAP

Sevens supremo speaks

Sevens legend Eric Rush is
the special guest at the Mid
Canterbury Rugby Union’s
annual fundraising dinner next
Friday at the Hotel Ashburton.
The 29-test All Black and 16year sevens veteran will speak
at the fundraising dinner for
Mid Canterbury junior rugby,
with tickets are still available to
the event.

‘Show some respect’

Russian pole vault legend
Yelena Isinbayeva warned
yesterday athletes competing
at next
February’s
Sochi Olympics
must respect
a controversial
law banning gay
“propaganda”
for minors
or risk facing
the legal
consequences.
The 31-year-old - regarded as
a role model by many young
Russians - added that, for her
at least, heterosexuality was the
norm. The Russian authorities
have said all athletes will be
free and safe to compete at the
Sochi Games regardless of their
sexual orientation but must
obey Russian law.
- AFP

Geale’s biggest fight

Daniel Geale’s international
experience is paying big
dividends as he prepares for
his debut in the United States.
Geale’s fifth IBF middleweight
title defence, against
Englishman Darren Barker in
Atlantic City tomorrow night
is his coming out party on
boxing’s biggest stage. But
if he’s feeling any nerves, his
knowledgeable promotor Gary
Shaw can’t detect them. Shaw
said Geale’s debut on American
pay-for-view network HBO
added extra pressure, but the
32-year-old from Launceston is
ice cool as he prepares to fight
before an expected capacity
crowd at Revel Casino.
- AAP

Bresnan’s season over

England pace bowling allrounder Tim Bresnan has been
ruled out of the remainder of
the Ashes and the rest of the
home international season with
a stress fracture in his lower
back, the England and Wales
Cricket Board announced
yesterday. Bresnan starred with
both bat and ball as England
beat Australia by 74 runs in the
fourth Test against Australia
at Chester-le-Street as they
went 3-0 up with one to play
to secure a third straight Ashes
series. He took the key wicket
of David Warner to pave the
way for Stuart Broad’s matchwinning spell.
- AFP

Des making his last call
Ashburton Boxing Club judge Des O’Grady has spent 50 years outside the boxing ring.
By Jonathan Leask

jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

Des O’Grady will make his last
call at the Ashburton Boxing
Club tournament tonight.
O’Grady has been ringside
judging fights for 50 years and
decided tonight’s third annual
Ashburton fight night was as
“good a time as any” to call it
quits.
“This will be the last one, not
because I have to or need to

have a reason to stop,” O’Grady
said.
“I’ve been doing it a long time
and it just seems a good time to
finish up.
“I’ll still be involved with the
club, I just won’t be a judge anymore.”
O’Grady wasn’t a boxer, only
having a few training session
as “back then they were too expensive” but when the call went
out for someone to represent

Ashburton as a judge he put his
hand up.
Over his half century of sitting ringside, O’Grady will
have judged somewhere in the
vicinity of 5000 boxing bouts,
including the New Zealand National Championships.
“Sometimes when you do a
big tournament and there are
two sessions you end up judging almost 40 bouts.
“It takes a lot of concentra-

Photo Jonathan Leask 160813-JL- 008

tion and by the last one you’re
glad it’s the last one.
“You don’t get to enjoy the
bouts as much.”
O’Grady was looking forward
to enjoying his last night, being able to sit ringside scoring four Ashburton sluggers
with Connor Perriton, Melissa
McGlynn, Declan O’Neill and
Christian Tikao, the two-time
Southland champion, all stepping in the ring.

■ GOLF

Wilkinson on fire in opening round
By DanieL RichaRDson
Kiwi golfer Tim Wilkinson
(left) is the highest-earning
player on the Web.com Tour
this year without a tournament
victory but he has put himself
in a good position to change
that this weekend.
The Manawatu professional
carded an opening round sixunder par 65 yesterday to hold
a share of the lead at the News
Sentinel Open in Knoxville,
Tennessee, alongside American
Michael Putnam.
Putnam is the leading mon-

ey-winner on this year’s Web.
com Tour, while Wilkinson
is in ninth with US$197,836
(NZD$244,417) to his name
from 14 starts but a tournament victory has continued to
elude him.
It’s testament to Wilkinson’s
consistency that he can sit so
high on the order of merit
without a win.
He has secured his spot inside
the top 25 money-earners this
year with two tournaments to
go, which means he will have a
PGA Tour card for next season.
Wilkinson’s round in Tennes-

see included seven birdies and
one bogey at the US$550,000
(NZD$681,000) tournament.
Victory this weekend could
see Wilkinson jump to as high
as fifth on the order of merit.
New Zealand’s Steven Alker,
22nd on the Web.com Tour’s
order of merit, fired an evenpar 71 to be in a share of 84th
place.
The 42-year-old is right on
the cusp of securing a PGA
Tour card for next year providing that he can hold on to his
place in the order of merit’s top
25.
- APNZ

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■ BOWLS

In brief

Hectic season ahead
By Jonathan Leask

jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

For a second straight year lawn
bowler Sandra Keith has spent
the winter preparing for northern hemisphere greens.
In October last year, months
of preparation paid off when
she won the World Champion
of Champion singles in Cyprus.
This time around she is preparing for the eight nations
tournament with the New Zealand Black Jacks, flying out today.
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a tri-nations test against Wales
and Australia as a warm-up for
the eight nations tournament
in Glasgow, the same venue
for next year’s Commonwealth
Games.
“It’s all pretty exciting but
I’m really looking forward to it,
and a bit nervous,” Keith said.
“I’m in a happy place again
this time heading in because
I’ve put all the preparation in,
but it’s hard to tell and I won’t
really know until I get over
there.
“Their greens are so different

but we’ve been practising on the
croquet green and hockey turf
and all sorts of things.
“I’m happy where I am and
I’ve done as much as I can to be
prepared.”
A minimum of six hours on
the green each week has seen
a lot of time and effort which
Keith hopes pays off.
The trip is a trial run before the 2014 Commonwealth
Games at the same venue, but
for Keith and the rest of the
Black Jacks squad it’s also a trial
for places.

They have headed over to
Glasgow with seven men and
seven ladies, but the return trip
next year will only have five of
each.
Lawn Bowls has had fours
added to the Games programme and New Zealand will
take a team of five men and five
women.
Keith aims to be one of those.
“They don’t name the Games
team until the end of March
so it’s a long time to wait, but
there is stuff in between.
“It should be a hectic season.”

Sharks wary of Dragons

Finals-chasing Cronulla are
wary of St George Illawarra’s
back three, despite the Dragons
losing fullback Josh Dugan
for tonight’s NRL clash in
Wollongong. The Sharks enter
this weekend’s round in sixth,
behind the Bulldogs on for and
against and five points off the
teams in third and fourth. Only
two points separate them from
the ninth-placed Raiders.
“What Gal’s (captain Paul
Gallen) been telling us is we’re
not secure in the eight at the
moment,” Sharks’ forward
Andrew Fifita said. “Maybe if
we win this one we’ll be secure
in the eight, but our goal was
we wanted to get into the top
four and I still believe that we
can get there.”
- AAP

Harrison happy at No. 6

Ashley Harrison is enjoying his
unlikely transformation into
an NRL five-eighth but don’t
expect him to take much credit
for reviving Gold Coast’s NRL
finals bid. The ex-Queensland
Origin backrower will seeking
to extend a perfect record in
the No. 6 jumper when the
Titans put their eighth spot
on the line against in-form
North Queensland in Townsville
today. Thrust into the makeshift
role due to a sternum injury
to Albert Kelly, Harrison has
combined with halfback Aidan
Sezer in wins over Wests Tigers
and Canterbury that reversed a
four-game losing streak. - AAP

Williams in for Campese

It’s the NRL chance departing
Canberra playmaker Sam
Williams didn’t believe he’d
get. Stuck behind regular pairing Terry Campese and Josh
McCrone since round eight,
the St George Illawarra-bound
halfback thought he’d finish his
Raiders career playing for the
Mounties in NSW Cup. But an
injury to skipper Campese will
give Williams perhaps one final
crack in the Raiders first grade
when they host Canterbury
today. “This is an opportunity
he didn’t think he’d get,” said
McCrone. “We did a bit of work
on (our combination) this week
so hopefully it feels the same
as it did last year when we were
playing well.”
- AAP

Anasta ‘unconcerned’

Ashburton’s hockey turf has come in very handy for Sandra’s practice sessions.

Photo Kirsty Clay 260413-KC-012

Warriors need to claw back lost ground
By MichaeL Brown
Jacob Lillyman has pretty painful memories of his NRL debut
when his Cowboys side conceded 60 points to a rampant
Knights outfit in 2003, but the
Warriors’ record defeat to Penrith this season still ranks as the
worst.
The Warriors were humiliated
62-6 by the Panthers in May in a

result that prompted crisis talks
and widespread criticism.
It was one of the lowest
points in the club’s history and
saw many fans questioning the
players’ commitment and wonder if Matt Elliott was the right
choice as coach.
It also prompted a remarkable
turnaround as they went on a
five-game winning streak and
eventually won seven out of

eight to put them on the cusp
of the top eight.
Retribution is not high on
their list when they take on the
Panthers at Mt Smart Stadium
tomorrow because keeping their
playoffs chances alive is more
powerful motivation.
But it still looms as a chance
to try to atone for what happened in round 10.
Many in the club can now

look back and say that heavy defeat was actually a good thing.
“I’ve often said that, as bad
as it was, it was the kick up the
bum we needed,” Lillyman said.
“We were dropping games in
the last 10 minutes.
“Looking back, although it
was very painful, it was probably something we will look
back on as a good lesson.”
- APNZ

Wests Tigers halfback Braith
Anasta admits it does hurt to
see his former club Sydney
Roosters flying high in the
NRL, but insists those feelings
won’t play a part in Monday’s
clash with the
ladder leaders.
Anasta, who left
the Roosters at
the end of last
year, will face
his old teammates at Allianz
Stadium for the
first time this
season. While the tri-colours
are relishing their berth atop
the ladder with just four games
remaining, the Tigers languish
in second-last - having lost their
last four fixtures. “It hurts a little
bit, but it’s not something that
I’ve thought about,” Anasta
said. “You get so entrenched
in your own world playing at
the Tigers and being a Tigers
man now. I look at them and I’m
happy for the way they’re doing
- They’re really a big chance of
- AAP
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$295m in dividends
Transpower, the state-owned
national electricity grid operator,
will pay the government almost
$295 million in dividends for this
year after annual profit more than
tripled. The Wellington-based
company, which isn’t among SOEs
slated for partial privatisation,
will pay a final dividend of $137
million to the Government, adding
to its special dividend of $65.7
million declared in June and an
interim return of $92 million. The
$294.7 million annual payment
is in line with the company’s
statement of corporate intent
target, and reflects 83 per cent of
Transpower’s $343.4 million net
cash flow. That’s down from the 93
per cent of net cash flow paid out
in the 2012 financial year, when it
paid out $306 million.
– APNZ

APN ekes out 1H profit
APN News & Media, the
Australasian publisher of the
New Zealand Herald newspaper,
returned to profit in the first half
of the financial year as it sold
assets and clamped down on
costs, and is mulling the sale of its
underperforming brandsExclusive
retail website. The Sydney-based
media group reported net profit
of $A12.8 million, or 1.9 cents per
share, in the six months ended
June 30, turning from a loss of
$A308.2 million, or 49.9 cents, a
year earlier when the company
slashed the value of its good will
and mastheads. Revenue rose 5
per cent to $A426.6 million, with
a $A31.9 million contribution from
asset sales. Advertising revenue
slipped 2 per cent to $A330.3
million and circulation sales fell 3.6
per cent to $A66.7 million. – APNZ

Z Energy shares
Shares in Z Energy have been
priced at $3.50 each – the middle
of an indicative range – after
a book-building process, the
company said yesterday. The
shares – representing 60 per cent
cent of the company – will list on
the NZX and ASX on Monday. The
offer required heavy scaling during
the auction-style book building
process. There was no public pool.
The initial public offer (IPO) raised
$840 million, or $420m each, for
the co-owners, NZX-listed Infratil
the New Zealand Superannuation
Fund, through Aotea Ltd. Infratil’s
and Aotea’s joint ownership of the
company will shrink to 40 per cent
as a result of the offer.
– APNZ

In our basics of investing series we have so far
covered taking stock of your circumstances,
planning the appropriate asset allocation and
understanding the various asset classes. In this
update we will discuss investing in shares.

Share investing

B

y investing in shares in a
public company listed on
a stock exchange, you get
the right to share in the future
income and value of that company. Your return (and loss) can
come in two ways:
■ Dividends paid out of the
profits made by the company;
■ Capital gains/losses made
because you are able to sell
your shares for more or
less than you paid. Gains
may reflect the fact that the
company has grown or improved its performance or
that the investment community see that it has improved
future prospects.
Any loss or gain in value is
said to be ‘realised’ when you
sell the shares. If you hold
on to them the loss or gain is
‘unrealised’. The price of shares
in any individual public listed
company can vary from day to
day. On any day some shares
may go up in value and some
down, depending on how investors view the prospects of each
company.
There are many complex
factors which influence share
prices on a daily basis and noone can accurately predict what
price listed shares will be in the
future. Overall the long-term
trend is for the value of listed
companies to increase at a rate
higher than inflation. Therefore, by investing in a wide
variety of companies operating
in a range of industries and
countries, an investor has a
good chance of making longterm gains.
Remember that in assessing the return from shares you
need to take into account dividends received as well as capital
gains. You should generally also
expect that the dividends from
the shares that you own will
increase over time.

$176.9 million invested at the
time of receivership in 2008.
North South Finance was put in
receivership in 2010, owing $31
million to about 3,900 debenture holders. Both were subsidiaries of NZX-listed Dominion
Finance Holdings, which was
placed in liquidation in 2009.
“Investors, many of them elderly, lost significant amounts
of money and the effect of this
has put a great deal of financial
and emotional strain on them,”
said Sean Hughes, chief ex-

ANZ lifts profits by 14%
ANZ New Zealand, the nation’s largest lender, lifted its
nine-month cash profit by 14
per cent by trimming costs
and taking a smaller provision
for bad debts, making up for a
drop in interest income.
Cash profit, which strips out
fair value movements in hedging and insurance assets, rose
to $1.06 billion in the nine
months ended June 30, according to the Australia and

Compiled by

MONEY MATTERS

Ian Lennie and Selwyn Sloan
are authorised financial advisers
with Forsyth Barr in Ashburton.
This column is general in nature
and should not be regarded as
personalised investment advice.
Disclosure Statements are available on request and free of charge

New Zealand Banking Group
NZ Branch disclosure statement. Net interest income fell
4 per cent to $1.96 billion, as
interest income declined 1.2
per cent and interest expense
rose 0.5 per cent. The profit
gain reflected “a reduction in
provisions for bad and doubtful debts as well as reduced restructuring costs and productivity gains from simplifying
the business”, the lender said.

Guardian
Shares & Investments

Ian Lennie and
Selwyn Sloan

Because of the volatility of
share prices (ie the fact that
in the short term they may go
up or down in value) it’s not
wise to invest money in shares
which you may need in the
short term. Shares should be
used as a longer-term investment. When you need your
money you will generally be
able to sell your shares but the
price at the time may be below
your purchase price.
There are also a number of
alternative investment options. For example: gold, hedge
funds, commodities and foreign
exchange (FX). These forms of
investment are not discussed
within this article. These
alternatives generally comprise
one or more of the following
characteristics:
■ They are for experienced
investors requiring indepth awareness and ongoing knowledge and commitment
■ They are harder to access
and have a high minimum
initial investment
■ The investment usually has
a higher risk or, in the case
of leveraged investment,
amplified risk.
Next time we will discuss the
different ways in which you can
invest.

ecutive of the Financial Markets Authority which took the
prosecution. “What this case
highlights, like the many other
finance company cases, is the
responsibility of directors to
provide truthful, accurate and
timely disclosure of material
information to investors.”
In June, former Dominion directors Ann Butler and Robert
Whale were sentenced to home
detention, having pleaded guilty
to Securities Act charges.
– APNZ

Bathurst Resources, the Wellingtonbased miner, will pay as much
as $600,000 for the assets of
Canterbury Coal near Christchurch
to expand its New Zealand
business. The mining company
has been operating the open cast
mine near Coalgate as part of due
diligence and during this time has
won a three-year contract to supply
up to 55,000 tonnes of coal a year
to a local dairy processing plant, it
said.
– APNZ

Former Dominion Finance and
North South Finance directors
Rick Bettle, Vance Arkinstall
and Paul Forsyth were sentenced in the High Court in
Auckland to home detention
for making untrue statements
in relation to the failed finance
companies.
Bettle and Arkinstall, who
pleaded guilty to five Securities Act charges including making untrue statements in offer

documents, were sentenced to
10 months home detention and
200 hours of community work.
In addition, Bettle was ordered
to pay $90,000 in reparations.
Forsyth, who pleaded guilty
to seven Securities Act charges
including making untrue statements in offer documents, was
sentenced to 11 months home
detention, 200 hours of community work and ordered to pay
$50,000 in reparations.
Dominion Finance had about
5900 debenture holders with

9/8

Miner buys assets

By Tina Morrison

2/8

Michael Hill International, the
jewellery chain that bears its
founder’s name, lifted annual
profit 9.6 per cent as sales growth
was underpinned by the retailer
opening new stores, offsetting flat
revenue on a same-store basis.
Net profit climbed to $40 million,
or 10.3 cents per share, in the 12
months ended June 30 from $36.5
million, or 9.5 cents, a year earlier,
the Brisbane-based company said
in a statement. That was just ahead
of First NZ Capital’s estimate of
$39.1 million.
– APNZ

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Saturday, August 17, 2013

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OUR VIEW

Politically
engaged
citizens
in short
supply
Coen Lammers
EDITOR

P

eople in Methven, Rakaia
and Hinds may see the
upcoming elections as a
bit of a waste of time.
Granted, they have their say
on the three candidates for the
mayoral role, but otherwise
there is not much to ponder for
them.
In the Eastern and Western
wards of the district there are
just enough candidates to fill
the numbers while the next
Methven Community Board will
have to function with one less
representative.
This is a sad state of affairs
for representative democracy
in Mid Canterbury and raises
the issue of how many people
it takes to make decisions on
behalf of 30,000 citizens.
There will be three candidates
for the top job and 13 applicants for the seven vacancies in
the urban ward, but aside from
that it is clear that politically
engaged citizens are hard to find
in Mid Canterbury.
It is not because they are not
interested, or not politically savvy, but many of us simply have
too much going on in our lives
to put that on hold for three
years. And that’s what it takes
to be an effective councillor.
The commitment is enormous
and the pay is inadequate, to
put it kindly, to compensate for
the work involved, inside and
outside of chambers.
So why not reduce the
numbers on all representative
bodies, including the Ashburton
Trust?
If the 400,000 citizens of
Christchurch can be represented
by 12 councillors, it seems odd
that Mid Canterbury needs the
same number.
By reducing the seats, the remuneration pot would be shared
by fewer councillors, thus offering a better pay packet for those
who win a seat. This in turn
might persuade other engaged
citizens to put their hands up.
The current council has
copped a bit of flak over the
years, but with several incumbents returning unopposed, the
voters only get a limited chance
to pass their verdict at the ballot
box.

YOUR VIEW

LETTERS

Overbridge
Good on you Father Gray,
what a fantastic idea you had
for an over-bridge for pedestrians by the ever busy roundabout.
It is a nightmare in the afternoons and a ticking time bomb!
One has to wonder if it will
take a fatality until action is
taken?
(Text message)

How do we register to vote
for Ashburton District Council?
I want to do my part to make
sure these gallery lovers are
out.
(Text message)

es of the goods at the Wastebusters shed. They are embarrassing and totally unrealistic!
Can anyone shed some light
on why?
(Text message)

Unrealistic prices

Sudoku too hard

I am gobsmacked at the pric-

Totally agree with Margaret

CRUMB by David Fletcher

re Sudoku, all levels extremely
difficult, used to be highlight
of breakfast table but now lost
interest.
Please replace with ‘old’ style
puzzles.
Anyone else feel this way?
Mike
(Text message)

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POLL RESULT
Yesterday’s result
Q: ???????????

Felicity Stacey Clark
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

I

feel for kids today. Dirt and
bugs, cuts and broken bones
are all forbidden.
Risk is off the menu. Unity
and conversation while sitting
at the family table has gone
since they clash with activity
programmes which resemble
some of our foremost athletes
and performers.
“Get inside, wash your hands
and sit up at the table,” was
probably the most familiar
phrase to be heard along our
street when we were kids.
Probably the most affronted
if we turned up any other
way would’ve been my grandmother. The simplest day-today meal was served on a white
table cloth, with white damask
napkins threaded through
silver rings.
Butter and jam was served in
dishes, and milk in jugs.
Knives and forks had to be
held the correct way, and what
we called pudding was served
with dessert spoons and forks.
Our hands may have been
thoroughly cleaned (there
were inspections) but we usually came in wearing a bit of
ground in blood and mud on
other bits.
That was wiped roughly
without any grandstanding.
We caught the usual childhood diseases, measles, mumps
and chicken pox, and occasionally we would hear of someone with TB or polio going to
hospital far away.
Now the scary thing to
worry about it seems is Hepatitis A.
Last I noticed, 19 cases had
been accounted for in Ashburton.
Where has it come from? Has

Our hands may have been
thoroughly cleaned but we
usually came in wearing a bit
of ground in blood and mud on
other bits

it been hiding somewhere?
I remember some older
person years ago saying a kid
needed to eat a peck of dirt to
get safely to adulthood. While
I can no longer remember how
much a peck is, it seemed a lot
at the time.
Perhaps we were raised tough
because that’s what kept the
Kiwis going while serving
overseas.
Although we are hearing of

cold leaky homes in some parts
of the country, I’m pretty sure
that in those days on average
they were of a much lower
standard.
Materials were short, and
there were waiting lists for
homes with one bath, one loo
and shared bedrooms.
Now we are bombarded with
health and safety messages, but
is the accident and illness rate
lower?

We survived.
We’ve heard the excuses.
Kids today are molly-coddled,
they’re not allowed to play
roughly outside, climb trees,
fall off bikes, break bones.
Another common one is it’s
the chemicals used in the house,
the garden, the foods, the plastics, the paint.
It seems like a simple problem. What’s the simple answer?
How about back to eating
jammed in around the family
table?
I sit around the table packed
with three generations of
family a few times a year. It’s a
special family time
Maybe if we share our bugs
by sitting in close proximity,
we’d immunise ourselves and
retain the strong healthy supportive families of the past.

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
This Gilbert & Sullivan’s Musical
Comedy follows the fortunes
of Frederic, a young lad who is
mistakenly apprenticed to the
Pirate King. Full of roving rogues
and dazzling damsels in distress,
it’s a treasure chest full of
mischievous musical mayhem.

Sat 24 Aug | 8pm
A reserve $89.99,
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The award winning rock musical
Nasda’s showcase of 2013 focuses
on the lives of two young men in the
Vietnam era against the backdrop
of the hippie culture.
Fri 13th Sep 7.30pm
Sat 14th 2pm + 7.30pm
Sun 15th 2pm
Adult $47, Senior/Students $32

MID CANTERBURY CHOIR

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Careful what you wish for

Join the Mid Canterbury Choir for
its Spring Concert. You will enjoy
The Homeland Tour brings together
excerpts from well-known operas,
an exciting mix of undiscovered and
lighter operas and operettas – With
established talent to join founder,
international soprano Lois Johnston
Barnaby Weir.
and Wellington-based Tenor Oliver
Enjoy an unashamedly kiwi sound
Sewell
stepped in folk, roots, soul and rock.

Chuck and Ted E Bare are back with
an all new comedy creation from
the twisted mind of Strassman.
Riotously funny!

ou may have heard that Medbury is an excellent
school for boys – and it is. At Medbury School
they certainly know what it takes to make the
boys happy and how to unlock their full potential.
Headmaster Peter Kay takes an individual interest in
every boy and his progress – an approach shared by
all members of staff.
The School provides a safe and caring environment
where both dayboys and boarders thrive, guided by
strong boundaries, clearly defined requirements and
exceptional peer support. The School’s motto is ‘Play
The Game’ which guides boys to make the very most
of the opportunities Medbury has to offer. It reinforces
an environment where there is equal pride in choirs,
cultural activities and academic achievements as in
team sports. Mr Kay believes that this diversity is
essential, allowing boys to express their characters
and strengths.
Mr Kay reinforced the need for the School to teach
boys to win and lose graciously, “Because in life they’ll
need to know how to cope with both.” While sport,
at all levels, is encouraged and celebrated, Medbury
takes equal pride in its exceptional choirs, cultural
achievements and extra-curricular activities. “Our
aim is to unlock the potential in every boy”.
The School operates on a very well established
system of ethics and values, which are, for the greater
part, supported by peers rather than by teacher

intervention. A particular source of pride for Mr Kay is
the willingness of boys of all ages to play together and
support each other.
Boarding at Medbury School provides an entry into
an exciting and welcoming ‘extended family’. Mr Kay
believes that boarding at Medbury is not just about
achieving academically, but holistically. The Boarding
House provides a welcoming ‘home away from home’
for up to 43 boys and the dedicated team ensures
that every boy receives the attention and support he
needs to flourish. In addition, a ‘big brother’ system
provides boys new to the Boarding House with friendly
guidance and advice. Teachers, again maximizing the
boys’ educational advantage, supervise homework.
Communication between parents and boys is actively
encouraged, with boys able to email daily, phone
home during the week, or Skype regularly. Many
boarders return home for the weekend after Saturday
sport, though those who ‘stay in’ are well catered for
with a diverse and engaging weekend programme.

In addition to developing excellent work ethics
and providing a broad and balanced education in a
stimulating and caring environment, Medbury is also
leading the way with 1:1 laptop classes. All boys in
Years 5-7 have their own laptops; in 2014 this will
extend to Year 8. Mr Kay believes their challenge is
to provide an education that cherishes tradition, but
prepares the boys for life in the 21st Century.

UNLOCKING YOUR SON’S POTENTIAL
You are invited to attend the

MEDBURY SCHOOL
OPEN DAY
Thursday 29 August
9.00am-12.00pm
The Headmaster will speak at 10.00am
Boarding Scholarship available for 2014 for all round ability
For more information contact Tanya Moore (Headmaster’s PA) on 03 351 6169
109 Clyde Road, Christchurch | office@medbury.school.nz | www.medbury.school.nz
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In brief
Woman loses arm
Officials reopened a Maui beach
yesterday, a day after a shark
bit off the right arm of a German
visitor about 46 metres offshore.
About 3 kilometres of beach in
the resort community of Makena
reopened at noon after lifeguards
and firefighters surveying the
ocean found no sign of sharks in
the area, Maui County officials
said. The woman, who was about
20 years old, was snorkelling at
Palauea Beach when the attack
occurred. The water was choppy
and visibility was limited at the
time.
-AP

Area 51 acknowledged

Members of the Egyptians Army walk among the smoldering remains of the largest protest camp of supporters of
photo Ap
ousted President Mohammed Morsi, that was cleared by security forces, in the district of Nasr City, Cairo.

Crackdown toll soars to 638
By Maggie Michael
Weeping relatives in search of
loved ones uncovered the faces of
the bloodied, unclaimed dead in
a Cairo mosque near the smoldering epi-centre of support for
ousted President Mohammed
Morsi, as the death toll soared
past 600 from Egypt’s deadliest
day since the Arab Spring began.
World condemnation widened
for the bloody crackdown on
Morsi’s mostly Islamist supporters, including an angry response

from President Barack Obama,
who cancelled joint US-Egyptian military manoeuvres.
Violence spread yesterday,
with government buildings set
afire near the pyramids, policemen gunned down and scores
of Christian churches attacked.
As turmoil engulfed the country,
the Interior Ministry authorised
the use of deadly force against
protesters targeting police and
state institutions.
The Muslim Brotherhood,
trying to regroup after the as-

■ UNITED STATES

sault on their encampments
and the arrest of many of their
leaders, called for a mass rally
on Friday in a challenge to the
government’s declaration of a
monthlong state of emergency
and a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
At least 638 people were confirmed killed and nearly 4000
wounded in the violence sparked
when riot police backed by armoured vehicles, snipers and
bulldozers smashed the two sitins in Cairo where Morsi’s supporters had been camped out for

six weeks to demand his reinstatement. It was the deadliest
day by far since the 2011 popular
uprising that overthrew autocratic ruler Hosni Mubarak and
plunged the country into more
than two years of instability.
Also The United Nations Security Council called on both the
Egyptian government and the
Muslim Brotherhood to exercise
“maximum restraint” and end
the violence spreading across the
country. Council members called
for national reconciliation. -AP

The National Security Agency
has broken privacy rules or
overstepped its legal authority
thousands of times each year
since Congress granted the
agency broad new powers in
2008, The Washington Post reported yesterday.
Most of the infractions involve unauthorised surveillance
of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United
States, both of which are restricted by law and executive
order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted
in unintended interception of
US emails and telephone calls,
the Post said, citing an internal
audit and other top-secret documents provided it earlier from
NSA leaker Edward Snowden, a
former systems analyst with the
agency.

In one of the documents,
agency personnel are instructed
to remove details and substitute
more generic language in reports to the Justice Department
and the Office of the Director
of National Intelligence.
The Post cited a 2008 example of the interception of a
“large number” of calls placed
from Washington when a programming error confused US
area code 202 for 20, the international dialling code for
Egypt, according to a “quality
assurance” review that was not
distributed to the NSA’s oversight staff.
In another case, the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court,
which has authority over some
NSA operations, did not learn
about a new collection method
until it had been in operation for
many months.
-AP

A powerful car bomb tore
through a bustling south Beirut
neighbourhood that is a stronghold of Hezbollah yesterday,
killing at least 18 and trapping
dozens of others in an inferno
of burning cars and buildings
in the bloodiest attack yet on
Lebanese civilians linked to
Syria’s civil war.
The blast is the second in just
over a month to hit one of the
Shiite militant group’s bastions
of support, and the deadliest in
decades.
It raises the specter of a
sharply divided Lebanon being
pulled further into the conflict
next door, which is being fought
on increasingly sectarian lines
pitting Sunnis against Shiites.
Syria-based Sunni rebels and
militant Islamist groups fighting to topple Syria’s President
Bashar Assad have threatened

to target Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon in retaliation
for intervening on behalf of his
regime in the conflict.
Yesterday’s explosion ripped
through a crowded, overwhelmingly Shiite area tightly controlled by Hezbollah, turning
streets lined with vegetable
markets, bakeries and shops into
scenes of destruction.
Dozens of ambulances rushed
to the site of the explosion and
firefighters used cranes and ladders to try to evacuate terrified
residents from burning buildings.
Some fled to the rooftops
of buildings and civil defence
workers were still struggling to
bring them down to safety several hours after the explosion.
The blast appeared to be an
attempt to sow fear among the
group’s civilian supporters and
did not target any known Hezbollah facility or figure.
-AP

The CIA is acknowledging the
existence of Area 51 in newly
declassified documents. George
Washington University’s National
Security Archive obtained a
CIA history of the U-2 spy plane
programme through a public
records request and released
it yesterday. National Security
Archive senior fellow Jeffrey
Richelson reviewed the history
in 2002, but all mentions of Area
51 had been redacted. Richelson
says he requested the history
again in 2005 and received a
version a few weeks ago with
mentions of Area 51 restored.
-AP

Charge dismissed
A Los Angeles judge has
dismissed a hit-and-run driving
charge against singer Chris
Brown. The judge said Brown had
reached a civil compromise with
the other driver and City News
Service says the misdemeanor
charge was dropped yesterday.
Brown didn’t attend the hearing.
Brown claims he traded insurance
information with the woman
after his Range Rover struck her
Mercedes in Toluca Lake in May.
His attorney says he accidentally
gave the woman the wrong
insurance information.
-AP

TV actress dies
That ‘70s Show actress Lisa
Robin Kelly has died at age 43.
Manager Craig Wyckoff says Kelly
died at a Los Angeles addiction
treatment facility she had entered
early this week. No official
cause of death was disclosed.
Kelly portrayed Laurie Forman,
sister of Topher Grace’s lead
character Eric, on the Fox series.
It concluded in 2006. Unlike some
of her co-stars — Grace, Ashton
Kutcher and Laura Prepon —
Kelly fell out of the spotlight after
appearing on the sitcom until
she started making headlines for
personal troubles.
-AP

Cayman, US agreement
The Cayman Islands says it
has reached agreement with
the United States to provide
information on accounts held by
American citizens to comply with
a sweeping US law designed to
combat tax evasion. The British
Caribbean territory, considered
the world’s sixth largest financial
centre and a major haven for
mutual funds and private equity,
said the texts of the new pacts
will be made public once an
official signing ceremony is held.
The Cayman government said
the pacts are tied to a US law
called the Foreign Account Tax
Compliance Act, which was
enacted in 2010 and expected to
take effect next year.
-AP

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Phone Paul Crequer, your local authorised Daikin dealer
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phone 0274-362-362 or 308 4573.

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If you are renovating or building a new home
you need someone to trust in all your PAINTING
and DECORATING NEEDS – Commercial or
Residential.
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• Wallpapering
• Waterblasting
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We will clean anything from the
mountains to the sea.

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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Fitter Turner/Machinist

Offal Room
Supervisor

Robertson Manufacturing Ltd is a locally
owned company situated in Hinds,
manufacturing agricultural equipment.
This person is to run our machine shop and
produce machining for our manufacturing
of agricultural equipment, mainly feedout
equipment and fertiliser spreaders that
we produce for New Zealand and export
worldwide. To fill this position you must
possess the following skills/attributes;

Factory Team Member
Permanent Part Time Position / Full Time Potential
Canterbury Long Run Roofing Ashburton are manufacturers and suppliers of Long Run Iron, Ridges, Flashings and all other associated roofing
products.
We are looking for an additional factory team member who is physically
fit, as this role does require some heavy lifting. This position would suit
a motivated person who is looking for long term employment and who
works well in a team environment.

• Tidy appearance
• Time management skills
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work unsupervised
• Good machining skills
This is a permanent full time position for an
experienced fitter turner/machinist.
Please apply in writing with your CV to:
The Manager
Robertson Manufacturing Ltd
PO Box 6
Hinds
Or email manufacturing@robfarm.co.nz
Applications close August 20, 2013

While this position is part-time initially there is potential for it to become
a full time role in the future.
You would need to have the following attributes:
• Customer focused
• Always thinks in the best interest of the company
• Outgoing personality and works well in a team environment
• Excellent work ethic and the ability to use your initiative
• Works well under pressure
• Holds a current full drivers licence
If you have all of these qualities and you would like the opportunity to
join our team, please apply in writing including your CV with two or more
references to:
Canterbury Long Run Roofing Ashburton
P.O Box 5009
Tinwald, Ashburton 7740
Attention: Megan McAtamney – Production Supervisor
or Email: megan@roofing.co.nz
Applications close: Monday 26th August

Hardware Assistant Manager

Due to an increase in work load we are looking for a
Experienced Auto Electrician to join our team. The position
is available for a skilled New Zealand trained technician to
work within the company. Must be self motivated and be
able to work unsupervised, have an up to date knowledge
of a variety of vehicles and be willing to learn. Field work will
be involved and you will be supplied a vehicle that is fully
equipped with stock to do most jobs.

Due to an increased workload we require a person for the Assistant
Manager’s position. This person will assist the Manager on a
day-to-day basis helping to control stock and increase sales. The
successful applicant will in the Manager’s absence be able to carry
out the Manager’s duties.

The skills required for this role are:
- Able to perform repairs and installations on all vehicles
and machinery systems competently and confidently
- Ability to correctly diagnose faults and failures
- Have a ‘fix it once’ ethic
- A current New Zealand drivers licence.

The essentials are:

Applicants for this position should have New Zealand
residency or a valid New Zealand work visa.

A background in building products or the building industry would
be an advantage.
• Excellent customer service focus
• Computer skills and accuracy
• Self motivated with a pleasant manner for sales
• Be able to manage staff
• Ability to use initiative

The position offers great job satisfaction and the opportunity to
join a team of staff who enjoy working together.
In return we offer fantastic staff buying privileges and solid job
security.
If you think you are the one to help us then apply in own handwriting
enclosing a CV to:

Due to an increasing workload, we require the assistance of an
experienced Machine Operator - to drive a Skid Steer loader.
Applicants for this position are required to have:
• Tidy appearance
• Good work ethic
• Attention to detail
• The ability to communicate well with clients
• HT licence
• Physical fitness
Remuneration to be negotiated on experience. All enquiries will
be treated in strict confidence.
Please email your interest to Warren Mackenzie at
mack.fam@xtra.co.nz
or phone directly on 0272 502502.

Some heavy lifting would be required and forklift experience would
be an advantage.

South Pacific Meats Ltd is seeking an enthusiastic and talented Supervisor to
join our team based at our Burnham plant in Christchurch.
We are seeking expressions of interest for an experienced and qualified
Supervisor for the Offal Room. Applicants should be able to demonstrate a high
level of accuracy, knowledge of the industry requirements, staff management
and computer skills.
The primary objective of this role is to ensure the smooth running of the offal
room.
The key responsibilities include:
• Ensure labour resource is utilised to maximise efficiencies and throughput
• All compliance and regulatory requirements are strictly adhered to ensuring
that the process is in control under HACCP
• Ensure all offal room operations are carried out to maximise utilisation while
meeting customer specifications
• Staff training, development and mentoring
• Health and safety compliance
• Continuous improvement
• All documentation is recorded and processed in an accurate and timely manner.
If you are looking to be challenged and want to join a successful, growing
organisation then send a full resume to: Wayne Lindsay, Health and Safety/HR
Coordinator, PO Box 8, Rolleston. Or, alternatively, you can apply onsite, at our plant
situated at: 1044 Two Chain Road, Burnham.

GROUND WORK SERVICES is a landscape construction business
with a large rural and urban clientele.

AutoSparks is a team of 14 comprising of Auto Electrical,
Mechanical and Hydraulics

If you have a positive attitude, are proactive and highly
organised, we would like to hear from you.

• Outstanding Leadership Opportunity
• Upgraded Export Operation

Experienced Machine Operator

Experienced Automotive
Electrician

We offer:
- A competitive remuneration package.
- Continuous training to expand your knowledge
- Great career opportunities
- Modern workshop with the latest scan tools
- Good team environment
- Assistance with relocation

South Pacific Meats – Malvern

All applications remain confidential
and close on Friday 30 August 2013.

Cook/Kitchen Staff Required
We require someone to help our existing team to cater
for our live in staff during the silage season running
October 2013 to March 2014
General cooking abilities required, experience cooking
for large numbers would be helpful but not necessary.
Working weekends will be required on a roster system.
Possibility of flexible hours depending on applicants.
Must have own transport
For more information please call 03 302 5890
Please apply by email to
office@quigleycontracting.co.nz

Electricians
A position has become available for a qualified
electrician to join our busy team.
A good ability to work in a team environment is essential,
ensuring the customers expectations are met at all times.
A wide range of tasks will be required in this job, from
Servicing, Domestic and Commercial Electrical Wiring,
Digital Tv and Data Wiring and Sound System Wiring.
There is an opportunity to progress your career in the
Refrigeration industry if you desire.
The right applicant for this job can expect a generous
remuneration package, depending on experience. Training
will be provided for areas of less experience.
Please call 3087182 or apply to
mark@stewartandholland.co.nz
Your confidentiality will be guaranteed.

Pest Control
Technician Trainee
Wanted for established local business
• Must have full drivers license
• A pride of personal appearance and good
people skills
• Excellent wages
Please apply in own writing, including resume,
to:
PO Box 6023, Ashburton, 7742
Applications close August 31, 2013

We
need
two
Electricians to ﬁll
positions on local
projects. The work
is interesting and
the wages will be
hard to beat.
If you are interested
in ﬁnding out more
about joining our
team and working
on a variety of
installations in the
South Canterbury
area,
please
contact:

Finance Officer/Administrator
Due to the retirement of a long standing employee Safer Ashburton
is now looking to employ a new Finance Officer / Administrator.
Safer Ashburton is a non-profit trust working in a number of areas
providing services and programmes that support and strengthen
individuals and families enabling them to make good choices.
We have a reasonable turnover employing 20 staff across 13 project
areas so require a capable individual with demonstrated attention
to detail to oversee this level of accounts and payroll. If you have
demonstrated experience in the following we would love to hear
from you.
9 Payroll (we currently use ACE Payroll)
9 Producing monthly cost centre and consolidated financial
statements
9 Producing annual financial statements for audit
9 Accrual accounting
9 Processing PAYE, GST, FBT and ACC
9 Banking, invoicing, payments, etc
9 Proficient in accounting and other related software packages.
(We currently use Quantum)
Given our work it is important to us that any potential candidate
is a caring individual who supports and values the work we do and
values and respects all people. We are looking for a real team
player with a bright personality and a passion to support the work
of our organisation. This position is for an average of 25 hours per
week and will suit someone looking for permanent part time work
in an office full of great people doing fantastic work.

Driver / Serviceman
We are a small family run transport company based in
Ashburton with a focus on servicing the building industry
and rural sector. Due to an increased workload we require
two new members to join our team.
We are looking for a Class 5 Driver with the ability to
turn their hand to any job required. Tip truck/crane truck
experience would definitely be an advantage. Some shift
work is required from time to time.
A Serviceman/Driver to do basic servicing and emergency
repair work on our fleet and as a floating driver when
needed.
You will need to be customer focused, have a sense of
humour and able to work unsupervised. In return we offer a
good hourly rate with overtime, tidy equipment and small
team atmosphere to work in.
Please apply in your own hand writing with CV and
references to;

www.saferashburton.org.nz

With an asset base of 672 million and annual revenue of 54 million,
this role will provide challenge and diversity that surpasses other
employers.
We’re looking for an accountant with exceptional people skills and
a positive outlook who is ready to further their career. You’ll need
to be committed to providing a high level of service and great at
prioritising your own work while being flexible enough to change
priorities.
The Ashburton District Council offers competitive market based
salaries, training and career development opportunities and a
range of health benefits. Based in Ashburton, our district will
provide you and your family a lifestyle unrivalled by most with Mt
Hutt and Lake Hood at your doorstep and Christchurch just down
the road.
To make the most of this
unique opportunity, see the
position description and
apply online by 21 August
2013.

This vacancy involves the full spectrum of accounting duties:
management, financial and auditing; whilst also acting as
an account manager providing advice to colleagues. You will
contribute to the development and maintenance of the financial
modules of our computer system, providing reports and ensuring
usability.

Mouldings Unlimited SI Ltd is a small
growing company that was established
four years ago and has seen year on year
growth.

We require the services of either an
experienced Plastic Rotational Moulder
or we will give consideration to someone
who is willing to learn. You must be able to
work with minimal supervision and be part
of a small team.

PO Box 237
ASHBURTON 7740

For an application pack please contact Safer Ashburton at:

We offer a collegial, family friendly
and flexible work environment.

Plastic Rotational Moulder

Purpose of Position

Company Representative
Building Supplies
Company Representative
Farm Buildings
(Two Positions)
We are looking for a experienced Building Supplies Sales Representative
and a Farm Building Salesperson, to become part of our team based in
Ashburton.
Their role is to plan and carry out direct sales activities such as maintain
and develop relationships with prospective and current clients. This
includes communicating with clients, responding and follows up sale
enquiries.
The successful applicants must have a good understanding of new
house builds or farm buildings with a eye for detail, and with excellent
communication skills. They should be able to build sustainable
relationships with our clients.
To be successful in this role you will:
• Excellent building product sales experience.
• Good knowledge of New Zealand Building Codes and construction
legislation.
• Computer literate.
• Be able to manage many workloads and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented,
collaborative environment is essential.
• Have excellent communication skills – as you will be required to
liaise at all levels with a range of people.
• Highly responsive and ‘business savvy’.
This position offers fantastic opportunities for progression within the
organisation and the sooner the start the better the transition into the
role – so we would like to hear from you today.
If this sounds like you, please send your CV with cover letter outlining
your relevant skills and current circumstances to:
Allan McCormick
Helmack ITM
92 Dobson Street
ASHBURTON
allanm@helmackitm.co.nz

All applications remain confidential
and close on Friday 30 August 2013.

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To assist in the formulation of an AAG
publicity and public programmes strategy
in consultation with the Manager/Curator.
To provide technical assistance in delivering
the Ashburton Art Gallery’s annual
programme of exhibitions and events.
Applications close 25 August 2013 at
5pm. For an application form and position
description contact:
Ashburton Art Gallery
PO Box 573, Ashburton 7740
Email:
shirin@ashburtonartgallery.org.nz

» COF Mechanic
» Fleet Serviceman
Rooney Earthmoving is one of New Zealand’s
leading privately owned civil contractors
specialising in earthworks and civil projects. The
organisation employs 215 staff and operates
a significant fleet of heavy machinery in the
South Island.
The Ashburton Branch of Rooney Earthmoving
has a vacancy for a COF Mechanic and a Fleet
Serviceman with work attributes including:
• Skills that include previous experience
working on road transport equipment
• Motivated self starters who demonstrate
initiative
• Reliable and flexible with the ability to work
unsupervised
These are permanent positions reporting to the
Ashburton Workshop Manager. The successful
applicants will be based at the Ashburton
workshop with a focus on mechanical work and
general servicing.
Wages and conditions will be negotiated with
the successful applicants.
Applicants need to apply with references to:
Alister Jopson, PO Box 403, Ashburton 7740
Phone: (03) 308 6011
Email: alister.jopson@rooneygroup.co.nz
Applicants must have New Zealand residency
or hold a valid work permit.

To be successful, applicants will have:
• The ability to work well in a team
environment
• Experience or interest in Trade/DIY
• Excellent communication and people skills
• Accuracy
• Reliability
• Ability to use initiative

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Phone: 021 860 711

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join our busy building supplies team. The
position involves working in our building
supplies department as a salesperson. This
position is full time and will include rostered
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Immaculately presented larger
family home on popular west side.
This sunny home has fresh neutral
colourways and new flooring
throughout. Roomy lounge/dining
room, five bedrooms or four and a
separate living space. Two
bathrooms, loads of storage, three
car garaging and easy care section.

WANTED labouring work or
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HEAVEN –
Proud parents Chantel and
Corey, along with darling big
sisters Annabel and Georgia,
are delighted to announce the
safe arrival of Riley Jade on
Friday, August 9. A massive
thank you to our wonderful
midwife Biddy, the team at
Ashburton maternity and our
family.
JACKSON –
Jon, Anna (nee Couper) and
big sister Libby would like to
announce the happy and long
awaited arrival of Greta Rose,
born August 13, 2013. A big
thank you to Sandra Scott
and the team at Christchurch
Women’s.

Peck –
Andrew and Fiona are thrilled
to announce the arrival of
Callum Alexander (8lb 6oz)
on August 11. Logan and
Hamish are very proud of
their new brother. Thanks to
Biddy and everyone else that
have helped out.

DEATHS
FOUGÈRE, Mary Bray –
On August 15, 2013
(peacefully), at Rosebank
Hospital, Ashburton, in her
91st year; very dearly loved
wife of the late Rodney, very
much loved mother of Geoff,
Peter, and Barb, dearly loved
mother-in-law of Rosemary
Du Plessis, Alison Fougère,
and Hugh Drake, loved and
cherished grandma of Sam
and Sus, Robert and Lisa,
Thomas and Sacha, Jack and
Adele, Ben and Anna,
Hamish, and Lucy and greatgrandma of Ella, and dearly
loved AFS mother of Jeff
Wassmann. A service to
celebrate Mary's life will be
held at St John's Anglican
church, Wai-iti Road, Timaru
on TUESDAY, August 20 at
2.00 pm, followed by private
cremation.
Our
sincere
thanks to the staff of
Rosebank for their excellent
care of Mum over the last
eighteen months and to
Presbyterian Support in
Timaru.
Betts Funeral Services
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Loved brother and brother-inlaw of May and Steve
Sugrue; James (Jim); Bid and
George
Lysaght
(all
deceased). Loved uncle of all
his nieces and nephews.
R.I.P.

DEUART, Harold Clifford –
In loving memory of our
uncle, who passed away one
year ago on August 17.
Will not be forgotten.
From his nieces and
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Raylene, Leo, Sam, Robbie
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For all your memorial
he touched so many lives.
requirements
Thank you to Father Gray for
New headstones and designs
his support. Your donations to
Renovations,
St Vincent de Paul were
Additional inscriptions,
much appreciated. A special
Cleaning and Concrete work
thank you to all who assisted
Carried out by qualified
at the scene of Frank’s
tradesmen.
accident and the Doctors and
620 East Street Ashburton
Nurses of the Intensive Care
Ph/Fax 308 5369
Unit at Christchurch Hospital.
or 0274 357 974
Please accept this as a
ebcarter@xtra.co.nz
personal acknowledgement.
NZMMMA Member

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mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.

A low over the northern North Island moves away to
the east tomorrow leaving an east to northeast flow
over the country. The flow turns northerly on Tuesday
ahead of a trough approaching from the Tasman Sea.

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Puzzles
Saturday, August 17, 2013

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CRYPTIC

1

ACROSS
1. Blot it out, blot it out a tree
changes it (10)
6. Begin to move South and it
will turn to the right (4)
10. What is a brain-cell?
A frank, outspoken rating!
(5,2,4,4)
11. Dodges the team on the
ladder (9)
12. Unmarried, and topless but it’s warm here! (5)
13. So we’d arranged to use a
divining rod (5)
15. Feverish Hector had no
alternative but to give one
carbon (6)
19. Old paper size, two pints
of which amounted to nothing
(6)
20. The barometer shows
gales at first, girl (5)
23. It concerns one’s birth in
South Africa (5)
24. Tried acting, as her reed
was broken (9)
26. Ten chairs cost us more
than the casual things one
puts on them! (7-8)
27. Part of dress to attach
draught animal to (4)
28. Additions giving one
admittance to one with son,
perhaps (10)

2

3

4

9

19

DOWN
1. Stood against one side of the
stage and assumed an attitude (7)
2. Goes flat out? No prepares to
go to sleep! (4,4)
3. Tartan trousers could have been
worsted? Do leave it out! (5)
4. Extra fee for counsel fee she
makes with the 3Rs (9)
5. They lift secret societies out of
China (5)
7. A stab of pain makes one of
two, for example, get up (6)
8. Put on another set of clothes
to put things right! (7)
9. Analgesic begins giving one
hope of attaining higher things (8)

14. Energy, with people of the
upper classes, is par (8)
16. Where food’s prepared for
company, all right for Head Office
to use( 9)
17. With majesty in music, as to
some variations (8)
18. Pardon me nasty mess I made
of it! (7)
21. Followers of the Marquis said
to change status at u-removal (7)
22. Strike at Terriers coming up on
alternate course in zigzag (6)
24. The partial rigor or iciness of the
dew (5)
25. Musketeer Thomas shortly
had a leader (5)

ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20)
With life’s pressures easing back this not only gives
you a chance to make up for lost time but to set
some new precedents or rituals.
TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21)
Go off script if you can, blowing away some
cobwebs before moving into what is destined to be
an extremely important new professional week.
GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22)
Keep both your financial and professional hats
off this weekend, instead making this a time for
following your heart and making up for lost time.
CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24)
This time last week relationship tension was just
starting to ease, now you’re likely to appreciate just
how much things have settled down.
LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23)
Ahead of next week’s Full Moon in your relationship
sector, the second in as many months, work to
ensure the communication lines are open.
VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23)
Venus is giving you a chance to start looking at
what’s in it for you, not only on the income front but
across your whole life.
LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23)
Venus’ return to your sign brings the fun, romance
and creativity back into your life, with a chance to
start making up for lost time.
SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24)
Make time over the weekend to indulge in a
romantic trip down memory lane, with the past
reminding you what you’ve been missing out on.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21)
While you have a chance to take your professional
hat off over the weekend it’s important to keep your
money hat on, trusting a nose for money.
CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20)
If you’re going to keep your professional hat on
over the weekend make it more about engaging
your imagination and listening to your heart.
AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19)
With next week likely to be busy on the work front,
take time out over the weekend to recharge your
batteries, putting you first.
PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20)
Venus’ return to your financial sector gives you a
chance to start exploring your financial desires and
expectations, considering new options.

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